City of dust : a cement company in the land of Tom Sawyer / / Gregg Andrews

• Autore: Andrews Gregg
• Pubblicazione: Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2002, c1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (387 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.8355
• Soggetto topico: Portland cement industry - Missouri - Ilasco - History; Working class - Missouri - Ilasco - History
• Soggetto geografico: Ilasco (Mo.) History; Ilasco (Mo.) Social conditions
• Note generali: First paperback printing--T.p. verso.; Reprint with new introduction.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- New Introduction -- Introduction -- Part I. A Foreign Colony in Mossback Missouri -- 1. From Robber Caves to Robber Barons: Atlas Portland Cement and the Transformation of Mark Twain's Boyhood Playground -- 2. Woodchopper Landlords and Cement Mill Tenants: The Social Origins of Ilasco -- 3. A Labor Camp in the Shadow of Atlas -- 4. The Wages of Cement -- 5. The Militia Comes to Town: Labor Unrest and the Strike of 1910 -- Part II. Whose Community -- 6. Extending the Control of Old Man Atlas, 1910-1930 -- 7. Schools and Churches -- 8. Company Patriotism and the War on Booze, Blacks, and Immigrants 1910-1930 -- 9. The Culture of Cement and the Forging of an Identity -- Part III. Dust to Dust: Big Business, the State, and the Destruction of Ilasco -- 10. New Landlord on the Block: The United States Steel Corporation, "Imperfect Collusion," and Depression-Era Ilasco -- 11. Gypsies Come to Town: A Union at Last -- 12. Ilasco and the Commercial Construction of Mark Twain -- 13. Render unto Atlas: The War on Community and Labor -- Epilogue: Whose History? Whose Mark Twain? -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: City of Dust
• ISBN: 0-8262-6412-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826115103321
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