Building the workingmans paradise

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This work surveys the 200-year history of company towns in the United States - a crucial chapter in the increasingly important area of urban studies. Crawford analyzes the development of the towns in a complex framework involving economic, social and ideological influences.



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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 februari 1996

Aantal pagina's: 248

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Margaret Crawford

Hoofduitgeverij: Verso Books

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 197 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 229 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 197 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm

Verpakking lengte: 229 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 680 g

EAN: 9780860916956

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