Author: Michigan manufacturer and financial recordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Book of Michigan Industry
Author: Michigan manufacturer and financial recordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
A Most Unique Machine
Author: George Smith MayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Michigan's Lumbertowns
Author: Jeremy W. KilarPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.
The Book of Michigan Industry
Author: Making Waves
Author: Scott M PetersPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052578
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
An entertaining study of how Michigan put American boat building on the map
Detroit's Wartime Industry
Author: Michael W. R. DavisPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738551647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Just as Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, during World War II it also came to stand for all American industry's conversion from civilian goods to war material. The label "Arsenal of Democracy" was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the United States formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of one Detroiter's unique leadership in the miraculous speed Detroit's mass-production capacity was shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to support America's victory and of the struggles of civilians on the home front.
The History of Business and Industry in Jackson, Michigan
Author: Tom BohnWe Kept Our Towns Going
Author: Phyllis Michael WongPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
WITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY—Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy. During this time the workers showed their political and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. Drawing on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of what single and married women could and should do as workers and citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room floor.
Lake Michigan
Author: Ann ArmbrusterPublisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780516261041
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Ideal for today's young investigative reader, each A True Book includes lively sidebars, a glossary and index, plus a comprehensive "To Find Out More" section listing books, organizations, and Internet sites. A staple of library collections since the 1950s, the new A True Book series is the definitive nonfiction series for elementary school readers.
Michigan's Economic Future
Author: Charles BallardPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609171284
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This accessible, engaging text examines the impact of the trends that have shaped Michigan’s economy, and offers innovative solutions to the current economic crisis. Charles Ballard’s illuminating book explores the structure of Michigan’s economy, including its roots in agriculture, the rise and fall of the automotive industry, and the long-term decline of manufacturing. Ballard proposes that investing in education to create a highly skilled workforce can help Michigan’s people to compete in the rapidly evolving global economy. Discussing the state’s transportation infrastructure, environment, public expenditures, and tax system, Ballard describes how changes in attitudes, policies, and political institutions will help to promote economic recovery and growth.