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Author : James B. Allen
Publisher : Norman, University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Company Town in the American West written by James B. Allen and published by Norman, University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Clark
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467129755
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Falk: Company Lumber Town of the American West written by Julie Clark and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years 1884 and 1937, the company mill and lumber town of Falk thrived in what is now the Headwaters Forest Reserve. In the late 1800s, Noah Falk and two other stakeholders became partners in the Elk River Mill and Lumber Company. During this transitional time in logging history, Falk was able to capitalize on the relatively inexpensive price of land, cheap labor, and inexpensive logging technologies, such as the band saw and the Dolbeer steam donkey. Isolated from Eureka and within the backdrop of the industrial revolution, many changes and spikes in local and immigrant populations created an intricate company town of 400 people. Between the 1940s and 1970s, Falk became a ghost town until the vacant buildings eventually became part of the soil that now supports the Headwaters Forest Reserve, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Author : Linda Carlson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295742925
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest written by Linda Carlson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. This new edition updates the status of the surviving towns and how they have changed in the fifteen years since the original edition, and what new life has been created on the sites of the ones that were razed. In the preface, Linda Carlson reflects on how wonderful it has been to meet people who lived in these towns, or had parents who did, and to hear about their memorable experiences.
Author : Hardy Green
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459618815
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Company Town written by Hardy Green and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-business communities have influenced the American economy, and explores the benefits and consequences of these towns.
Author : John Garner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361415
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Company Town written by John Garner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that embraced capitalism and open-market trading. In many instances, the company town came to symbolize the wrecking of the environment, especially in places associated with extractive industries such as mining and lumber milling. Some resident industrialists, however, took a genuine interest in the welfare of their work forces, and in a number of instances hired architects to provide a model environment. Overtaken by time, these towns were either abandoned or caught up in suburban growth. The most thorough-going and only international assessment of the company town, this collection of essays by specialists and authorities of each region offers a balanced account of architectural and social history and provides a better understanding of the architectural and urban experiences of the early industrial age.
Author : Raymond Bial
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054756189X
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the American West written by Raymond Bial and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001-02-26 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it is abandoned by all or most of its inhabitants, a settlement becomes a ghost town. The buildings and dirt streets may remain, but the character and soul of the place change entirely. And so it was with mining camps, lumber camps, and cowboy towns scattered across America, particularly in the West: places with names like Gregory’s Diggings, Deadwood, Bodie, Calico, Goldfield, and Tombstone, some of the over 30,000 deserted towns in the United States. Why did people come to these isolated places? Why did they leave? As Raymond Bial’s narrative explores the history of our ghost towns, his well-composed photo-graphs silently tell their stories: of bustling, muddy streets, of large mercantile stores, and, ultimately, of short-lived dreams of gold, fertile land, or simply a good place to call home.
Author : Price V. Fishback
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361938
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Soft Coal, Hard Choices written by Price V. Fishback and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most studies of labor in the coal industry focus on the struggle to organize unions, this work offers a more diverse and quantitative examination of the labor market. It regards the economic lives of the bituminous coal miners in the early twentieth century. Fishback's analytic framework encompasses competition among employers for labor, the legal environment, institutional development in response to transactions costs as well as the impact of labor unions on the coal industry. Utilizing economic theory and statistics, Fishback reveals the models hidden in the descriptions of events, and then tests their internal consistency as well as the hypotheses they generate.
Author : James Fallows
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871857
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Author : Michael A. Amundson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0870817655
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yellowcake Towns written by Michael A. Amundson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yellowcake Towns provides a look at the supply side of the Atomic Age and serves as an important contribution to the growing bibliography of atomic history.
Author : Kathryn Hovey
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826334466
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Anarchy and Community in the New American West written by Kathryn Hovey and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Madrid, New Mexico's, multiple identities and struggles for survival as a tourist attraction in the last three decades.
