America's Company Towns
One-company towns in Brazil | Latin American Centre
This project looks at extractive industries in Brazil. Our aim is to identify, map, compare, and contrast municipalities that have mining or oil as a main ...
American Experience - Coal Towns, from The Mine Wars
West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no ...
The Bosses' Utopia: Dystopia and the American Company Town
The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy. Basic Books, 2010.
Corporations are bringing back the company town - The Future Party
Some of the biggest American corporations in tech and entertainment are having big city dreams — developing a new generation of “company towns” ...
Category:Company towns in the United States - Wikimedia Commons
Countries of North America : Canada · United States of America ‡ ‡: partly located in North America.
Company Towns: Labor, Space, and Power Relations ... - SpringerLink
Company towns first appeared in Europe and North America with the industrial revolution and followed the expansion of capital to frontier societies, ...
Company Towns | American Heritage Center (AHC) #AlwaysArchiving
Tag Archives: Company Towns. Glimpses into the Iron Ore Mining Past of Sunrise, Wyoming. Posted on June 7, 2018 by ahcadmin. The Sunrise Mine and Town Site ...
The Modern-Day Company Towns of Arkansas
Walmart and Tyson—two of the world's largest companies—play an outsized role in this small metropolitan area's economic and political affairs.
What Facebook Should Know About Company Towns - Bloomberg
In the early 20th century, hundreds of company towns dotted America—quasi-public municipalities where the corporation you worked for built ...
The new company towns - Strategy+business
On her first visit to Tulsa, Okla., Joanna Schreck went apartment hunting — with US$2,500 in her pocket to cover up-front relocation costs and ...
The Design of American Company Towns | Verso Books
In her brilliant exploration of company towns from 1790 to 1925, Margaret Crawford has created the definitive book on this major topic in American economic and ...
Company Towns – The House I live in
Ambridge PA steel mills Homes and steel mills of the American Bridge Company in Ambridge, PA, 1938. Extell Project, Chinatown, New York ...
Elon Musk's utopian town will disappoint — like most company towns
America's utopian communities have traditionally promoted egalitarianism and alternatives to capitalism. Company towns do the opposite.
Space settlements could end up being company towns.
Company towns are privately planned settlements built and controlled by a single corporation. Historically, they were built to support industries like mining ...
The coal company had to build a whole town for its workers. In the "patch towns," as they were called, houses, schools, and churches were built right next to ...
Company towns. | Library of Congress
Title. Company towns. ; Names. Bowman, John (Interviewee); Hufford, Mary, ; Created / Published. August 8, 1993 ; Headings. - Scrip; - Company stores ...
Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working ...
Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. ... Company towns across the Americas played similar ...
America's Company Towns, Then and Now - Pinterest
A look at these small towns across the United States shows the good, the bad and the ugly of the industrial boom.
Company Towns - Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute
In the early days of phosphate mining in Florida (1880 to 1920), there were a dozen or so major phosphate mining companies operating in the Bone Valley region ...
Company Towns - Library of Virginia
Characteristic of coal towns was the influence of the company. Companies built hospitals, hotels, recreation halls, schools, and stores for miners and their ...