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Re:Company town by bmmayer1 on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:15AM (#12180303)
This quote from the article seems to say the opposite:

"By the 1920s the need for company towns had declined significantly due to increased national affluence. Despite income inequalities and a relatively low standard of living conditions amongst factory labourers, the prosperity of the 1920s saw workers’ material well-being improve significantly."

So, company towns were so exploitative, workers wealthed up before long and made them obsolete?

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Re:Company town by ubernostrum on Thursday July 28, 2016 @03:36PM (#12182586)
In many places the company systems were broken, finally, by the rise of labor unions. Sometimes relatively peacefully, sometimes not; there was open warfare between workers and company-hired armies (yes, armies) in quite a few locations.
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Re:Company town by Kliment on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:51AM (#12180551)
No, but other opportunities emerged, and people moved away from company towns.
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