Wainwright Shipyard: The Impact of a World War II War Industry on Panama City, Florida, studied a small town's conversion to an industrial center to meet the war emergency. The U.S. Maritime Commission selected Panama City as the location for a shipyard to build cargo vessels called Liberty Ships. The Liberty Ship's simple design made it possible to build with unskilled labor. Liberty shipyards used such mass production techniques as prefabrication, pre-assembly, and welding. J. A. Jones Construction Company, Incorporated, operators of the shipyard, had to recruit and train labor for industrial work. The manpower shortage necessitated the use of non-traditional workers, i.e., women and African-Americans. / Panama City experienced a tripling of its population within a year. This population required housing and the infrastructure to support it--utilities, water and sewage, and transportation facilities. The families who located here required additional child care and educational facilities and medical services. The population strained such local government facilities as police and fire protection and the tax collection agencies. The increased population severely strained the communities' shopping and entertainment facilities. These problems required action by the local community leaders and appropriate governmental agencies such as the U.S. Maritime Commission, War Production Board, Office of Community War services, Federal Public Housing Authority, Federal Housing Administration, and the National Housing Agency to meet the community's war population needs. / The presence of Wainwright Shipyard left a lasting legacy in the community in the form of the infrastructure built to accommodate the residents that remained when the shipyard closed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 1073. / Major Professor: Neil Betten. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77142 |
| Contributors | Pelt, Peggy Dorton., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 388 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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