Date of Award
2019
Document Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Industrial Archaeology (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Social Sciences
Advisor 1
LouAnn Wurst
Committee Member 1
Melissa F. Baird
Committee Member 2
Laura Rouleau
Abstract
In industrial settings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, capital often instilled discipline through control of social behaviors. Among those, alcohol consumption was most often targeted due to its effects on worker productivity. Although many industrial settings of this time enforced sobriety policies, the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company (CCI) never enforced sobriety within their lumber camps. CCI took a hands-off approach to managing their lumber camps, which allotted their workers a great deal of autonomy. These lumber camps provide the opportunity to explore how workers used alcohol within an industrial setting when given autonomy. Looking at bottle remains and the context of feature areas they were recovered from, I examined how alcohol consumption related to variables such as ethnicity, class, and residency amongst workers. From this, I explore how these variables influenced workers use of alcohol in a setting where they had the autonomy to do so freely.
Recommended Citation
Allen, Tyler D., "INTEMPERATE MEN: ALCOHOL AND AUTONOMY WITHIN THE LUMBER CAMPS OF MICHIGAN’S UPPER PENINSULA", Open Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2019.