# Building the Workingman's Paradise

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- Book: [Building the Workingman's Paradise](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-crawford/building-the-workingmans-paradise) ([Building the Workingman's Paradise.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-crawford/building-the-workingmans-paradise.md))
- Authors: [Margaret Crawford](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-crawford)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-08-6091-695-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1996-02-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers’...