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Businesses · Industrial Revolution
The 1880 count, read from the pages: what Chapman's pages 664–665 actually carry
The register directs this section to Chapman's printed 1880 township products table at pages 664–665, read from the page images because the machine text is garbled. The pages were read — in the Internet Archive scan of the 1880…
Power changing state, dated: water, steam, current
The sequence on this ground runs in the order the checklist names. Water first: the power that built the county's first industry was the St. Joseph River, and Chapman in 1880 already speaks of it in the past tense of development…
The transformation as a dated ladder, figure by figure, gaps named
Read as a ladder — works, hands, product, each rung dated — the transformation on this ground has four rungs that carry figures and three that carry named gaps. Rung one, the land base, 1880: Chapman prints the county's area by…
The labor system from inside: a nonunion chain, a federal case, and union hands on the new ground
The corridor's labor system has a documented inside, and its central fact is a contest the union lost at the door and won a point of in federal court. Martin's Super Markets — the chain whose Granger store carries the train mural…
Company housing: an honest negative, and the farm that housed its own labor
No company housing stands in this ground's record, and the negative is stated as a searched result: the neighborhoods record of this build is a plat record — subdivisions platted, marketed, and sold lot by lot to individual…