Mosher Capital's Utopia

Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2924-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Creating the North American Landscape

In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that providing workers with good housing and a good urban environment would make them more loyal and productive. In 1895, Apollo Iron and Steel built a new, integrated, non-unionized steelworks and hired the nation's preeminent landscape architectural firm (Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot) to design the model industrial town: Vandergrift.

In Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916, Anne E. Mosher offers the first comprehensive geographical overview of the industrial restructuring of an American steelworks and its workforce in the late nineteenth–century. In addition, by offering a thorough analysis of the Olmsted plan, Mosher integrates historical geography and labor history with landscape architectural history and urban studies. As a result, this book is far more than a case study. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mosher, Anne E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Vandergrift's Antecedents
Chapter 1. Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley Iron Industry
Chapter 2. Apollo's Uneasy Transition From Iron to Steel
Part II: Vision, Plan, and Place: The Creation of Vandergrift
Chapter 3. The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot Plan for Vandergrift
Chapter 4. Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula
Part III: Gauging Vandergrift's Success
Chapter 5. The Steel Strike of 1901
Chapter 6. Growing Pains for the "Model Town"
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mosher, Anne E.
Anne E. Mosher is an associate professor of geography and co-director of the Global Affairs Institute's Space and Place Initiative in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.