Building The Workingman S Paradise
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Building The Workingman S Paradise
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Author : Margaret Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1995
Building The Workingman S Paradise written by Margaret Crawford and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts, through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial transformation, class struggle, and reformers' efforts to control and direct these forces.
The Workingman S Paradise
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Author : John Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-04-01
The Workingman S Paradise written by John Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with categories.
The Workingman S Paradise
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Author : John Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
The Workingman S Paradise written by John Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Labor categories.
Inspired by the events of the 1891 Shearers' Strike in Barcaldine this story shows a contrast between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' (slum dwellers and the wealthy citizens) and depicts the conflict.
Treadwell Gold
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Author : Sheila Kelly
language : en
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Release Date : 2010-05-15
Treadwell Gold written by Sheila Kelly and has been published by University of Alaska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-15 with Social Science categories.
A century ago, Treadwell, Alaska, was a featured stop on steamship cruises, a rich, up-to-date town that was the most prominent and proud in all Alaska. Its wealth, however, was founded on the remarkably productive gold mines on Douglas Island, and when those caved in and flooded in the early decades of the twentieth century, Treadwell sank into relative obscurity. Treadwell Gold presents first-person accounts from the sons and daughters of the miners, machinists, hoist operators, and superintendents who together dug and blasted the gold that made Treadwell rich. Alongside these stories are vintage photos that capture both the industrial vigor of the mines and the daily lives that made up Treadwell society. The book will fascinate anyone interested in Alaskan history or the romance of gold mining’s past.
Company Towns
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Author : M. Borges
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-08-16
Company Towns written by M. Borges and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-16 with History categories.
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, colonies, and new nations. Their common feature was the degree of company control and supervision, reaching beyond the workplace into workers' private and social lives. Major sites of urban experimentation, paternalism, and welfare practices, company towns were also contested terrain of negotiations and confrontations between capital and labor. Looking at historical and contemporary examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book explores company towns' global reach and adaptability to diverse geographical, political, and cultural contexts.
Building Power
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Author : Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2008
Building Power written by Anna Vemer Andrzejewski and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Architecture categories.
Introduction -- Discipline -- Efficiency -- Hierarchy -- Fellowship -- Conclusion.
Building The Ivory Tower
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Author : LaDale C. Winling
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018
Building The Ivory Tower written by LaDale C. Winling and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.
Building the Ivory Tower examines the role of American universities as urban developers and their changing effects on cities in the twentieth century. LaDale C. Winling explores philanthropy, real estate investments, architectural landscapes, and urban politics to reckon with the tensions of university growth in our cities.
Books Buildings And Social Engineering
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Author : Alistair Black
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Books Buildings And Social Engineering written by Alistair Black and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book thus includes a study of what is happening to these historic libraries now and proposes that knowledge of their origins and early development can help build an understanding of how best to handle their future.
Precious Metal
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Author : Peter H. Christensen
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2022-04-13
Precious Metal written by Peter H. Christensen and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-13 with Architecture categories.
With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world. Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist material—not for the heroic structural innovations it facilitated but for a deeper understanding of the role it played in the steady change of the earth. Focusing on the formative years of the architectural steel economy and on the corporate history of German steel titans Krupp and Thyssen, Christensen investigates the ecological interrelationship of artificial and natural habitats, mediated by steel. He traces steel through six distinct phases: birth, formation, display, dispersal, construction, and return. By following the life of steel from the collection of raw minerals to the distribution and disposal of finished products, Christensen challenges the traditional narrative that steel was simply the primary material responsible for architectural modernism. Based on the premise that building materials are as much a part of the natural world as they are of a building, this groundbreaking book rewrites an important chapter of architectural history. It will be welcomed by specialists in architectural history, nineteenth-century studies, environmental history, German studies, modernist studies, and the Anthropocene.
The Enduring Legacy
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Author : Miguel Tinker Salas
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-20
The Enduring Legacy written by Miguel Tinker Salas and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-20 with History categories.
Oil has played a major role in Venezuela’s economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country’s social, cultural, and political landscapes. In The Enduring Legacy, Tinker Salas traces the history of the oil industry’s rise in Venezuela from the beginning of the twentieth century, paying particular attention to the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both foreign and Venezuelan. He reveals how class ambitions and corporate interests combined to reshape many Venezuelans’ ideas of citizenship. Middle-class Venezuelans embraced the oil industry from the start, anticipating that it would transform the country by introducing modern technology, sparking economic development, and breaking the landed elites’ stranglehold. Eventually Venezuelan employees of the industry found that their benefits, including relatively high salaries, fueled loyalty to the oil companies. That loyalty sometimes trumped allegiance to the nation-state. North American and British petroleum companies, seeking to maintain their stakes in Venezuela, promoted the idea that their interests were synonymous with national development. They set up oil camps—residential communities to house their workers—that brought Venezuelan employees together with workers from the United States and Britain, and eventually with Chinese, West Indian, and Mexican migrants as well. Through the camps, the companies offered not just housing but also schooling, leisure activities, and acculturation into a structured, corporate way of life. Tinker Salas contends that these practices shaped the heart and soul of generations of Venezuelans whom the industry provided with access to a middle-class lifestyle. His interest in how oil suffused the consciousness of Venezuela is personal: Tinker Salas was born and raised in one of its oil camps.