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Re:Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay by mikecane on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:09PM (#1494723)
Was he the first to do that? I read a book about Frick & Carnegie and was shocked to learn Frick had company housing and stores for the workers of Carnegie's steel empire. I wonder where this idea came from? Not even wikipedia has its origins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store

EDIT: I should have clicked more. Pullman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

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Re:Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay by ugh on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:31PM (#1494798)
Company housing was very, very common in Europe when the Industrial Revolution really got started.

Many German towns which got a train connection early on have these typical big red brick houses were the workers lived, probably the most visible reminder of that practice.

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Re:Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay by hugh3 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @02:03PM (#1494874)
And, of course, it's still very common in newly-industrialising countries like China.
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Re:Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work With Six Days' Pay by ovi256 on Thursday July 08, 2010 @08:43AM (#1497140)
It was very common in all communist countries, which pushed hard towards industrialization. They thus transformed rural farmers into suburban industrial workers.
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