Midwest Book Review
In City Of Dust: A Cement Company Town In The Land Of Tom Sawyer, Gregg Andrews tells the story of the exploitation and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri. In 1901, the Atlas Portland Cement Company built a cement plant outside of Hannibal, around which a town for the plant's predominantly immigrant labor force grew. Following a labor strike in 1910, Atlas sought to control its labor force by controlling the saloons, other businesses, and real estate of Ilasco. Ultimately, Atlas officials, Missouri highway officials, and local business leaders promoting the growing Mark Twain tourist industry closed ranks to relocate scenic Highway 79 through the heart of Ilasco, effectively destroying the town. City Of Dust weave together labor, social, business, immigration, and environmental history. Andrews' thorough treatment of the subject places Ilasco in a larger regional and national context and increases our understanding of deindustrialization in twentieth-century America.
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- The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, And Regular Folk by Thomas M. Spencer in Front Matter, page 11, and Back Matter
- Immigrant Women In The Settlement Of Missouri (Missouri Heritage Readers) by Robyn Burnett on page 129, and Back Matter
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