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Building the Worker's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Margaret Crawford, Crawford
ISBN-13: 9780860916956, ISBN-10: 0860916952
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, Incorporated
Date Published: November 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Margaret Crawford

Book Synopsis

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism--the history of communities built and owned by companies seeking to bring their workers' homes and place of employment together on a single site.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Industrial Landscape Transformed: 1790-1890
1	Textile Landscapes: 1790-1850	11
2	The Company Town in an Era of Industrial Expansion	29
3	Welfare Capitalism, Housing Reform, and the Company Town	46
4	Designers and the "New" Company Town	61
5	The Search for a Style	78
Pt. II	Designing the "New" Company Town
6	Americanizing the Garden City: Grosvenor Atterbury and Indian Hall	101
7	Redesigning the Mining Town: Bertram Goodhue and Tyrone, New Mexico	129
8	Professional Solutions: John Nolen and the Standardization of Company Town Planning	152
9	Regional Alternatives: Earle S. Draper and the Southern Textile Mill Village	174
	Conclusion: The End of the Company Town	200
	Notes	213
	Index	240

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