Company town | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-02

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town


00:00:45 1 Overview
00:02:56 2 History
00:03:05 2.1 Paternalism
00:04:33 2.2 Pullman lesson
00:07:51 2.3 Decline of American company towns
00:10:41 3 Model company towns
00:13:08 3.1 Model company towns in Britain
00:17:17 4 Industrial colonies in Catalonia, Spain
00:20:31 5 Present-day company towns
00:20:41 5.1 Brazil
00:21:07 5.2 Canada
00:21:45 5.3 Finland
00:22:37 5.4 France
00:22:50 5.5 Germany
00:23:05 5.6 Japan
00:23:18 5.7 Namibia
00:24:16 5.8 Poland
00:24:32 5.9 Slovakia
00:25:01 5.10 Sweden
00:25:22 5.11 Ukraine
00:25:56 5.12 United States
00:27:59 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often planned with a suite of amenities such as stores, churches, schools, markets and recreation facilities. They are usually bigger than a model village ("model" in the sense of an ideal to be emulated).
The best examples of company towns have had high ideals; but many have been regarded as controlling or exploitative.  Others developed more or less in unplanned fashion, such as Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, United States, one of the oldest, which began as a LC&N Co. mining camp and mine site nine miles (14.5 km) from the nearest outside road.