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The Controversial History of America's Company Towns

Are they really as utopian as their proponents claim?

By Kelsey McConnell | Published Oct 6, 2021

company-towns — Brookside, Kentucky, a coal mining company town.Photo Credit: Wikipedia

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company-towns — A guard watches over a company town in Alabama, 1937.
Photo Credit: Library of Congress

pullman, chicago — Workers leaving the Pullman Palace Car Works, 1893. This photo first appeared in a promotional booklet praising George Pullman's paternalistic labor policies.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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