"Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging Company stores of paternalistic employers.
This new edition updates the status of the surviving Towns and how they have changed in the fifteen years since the original edition, and what new life has.
But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those Company Towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. "Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging Company stores of paternalistic employers