Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social

Examines how towns across the United States have grown thanks to the existence of one large business being run from the community, discusses how those single-bu

“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 onl

This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter in the story of American urbanism—the history of communities built and owned by single compa