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"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. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that... read more
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Holden. McCleary. Clay City. Kinzua. Coulee Dam. DuPont. Diablo. Ryderwood. Richland. Potlatch. Port Gamble. Grisdale. Valsetz. Vanport. Black Diamond. Brookings. Shevlin. Taylor. They were all towns that the boss built.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Linda Carlson (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 307.76709795
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Urban
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic History
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