Article ID: CBB907695308

Housing the Urban Industrial Work Force: Milan, Italy, 1860-1914 (1980)

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Important questions about urban labor and domestic life in the past may be addressed by studying the physical remains of the buildings where workers lived. What is thereby discovered must, however, be supplemented with information from written and graphic sources in order to learn about decisions concerning the location and design of housing, the amenities furnished, the costs to residents, and the overall industrial and urban context. Finally, in order to formulate valid generalizations, evidence from specific studies must be corroborated. There follows a study of workers' housing in one Western city, Milan, in the period between the achievement of Italian unification and the outbreak of the first World War. Good examples of various types of, and settings for, such housing still stand. The author hopes that it will stimulate similar studies in other cities, which, eventually, will contribute to a synthesis concerning this aspect of the material history of industrialization.

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Authors & Contributors
Gordon, Robert B.
Mary Beth Meehan
Jeremy Lowe
Mary C. Beaudry
Marta Amelia Timmons
Cristini, Carlo
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Material culture
Research methods
Housing
Labor and laborers
Industrial Development
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Milan (Italy)
Italy
Canada
New Bedford, Mass
Lachine Canal
Institutions
West Point Foundry
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
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