Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Model Company Towns in America, 1800-1914 -- I. A Steel Plant and a Company Town, 1907-1915 -- 1. The Economics and Politics of Iron Ore and Big Steel -- 2. Building a Steel Plant: Recession, Indecision, and War -- 3. Neighborhood Housing from Gary to Oliver -- 4. The Emergence of a Model Company Town -- II. Working and Living in Morgan Park, 1916-1929 -- 5. Stability and Prosperity for U.S. Steel -- 6. The Complete Company Town -- 7. Engineering the Good Life -- III. From Despair to Prosperity, 1930-1945 -- 8. Struggling for Work during the 1930s -- 9. Getting By and Making Do -- 10. More Steel for Another War -- 11. No More Company Housing -- IV. Closing a Steel Plant but Preserving a Community, 1946-2006 -- 12. Six Strikes to Shutdown -- 13. Preserving the Model Town -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photographs of Morgan Park.