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Michigan's lumbertowns : lumbermen and laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905 / Jeremy W. Kilar

Catalog Data

Author:
Kilar, Jeremy W.  Search this
Physical description:
361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Michigan
Saginaw (Mich.)
Bay City (Mich.)
Muskegon (Mich.)
Bay City
Muskegon
Saginaw
Date:
1990
Contents:
Illustrations and maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lumbering and lumbertowns -- Lumbertown enterprise -- Sawdust cities -- Adjusting to violence -- Lumbertown barons -- Workers in the mill towns -- Ten hours or no sawdust -- End of the White Pine Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
Summary:
Introduction: This book examines the interaction of three communities' social, cultural, and economic institutions and assesses the effect on peoples' lives. Community experience defines the entrepreneurial character of the lumbertowns' sawdust barons as well as the character of the laboring mill men. This experience explains how the forces for progress induced changes that presaged the socioeconomic future of each lumbertown.
Topic:
Lumber trade--History  Search this
Industries--History  Search this
Economic history  Search this
Industries  Search this
Lumber trade  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Call number:
HD9757.M5K54 1990X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_412669