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Re:Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all... by johnmaguire2013 on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:06PM (#17322587)
I may be wrong, but I believe in the US, the coal mining companies constructed these as well. This led to the workers essentially becoming indentured servants. [citation needed]
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Re:Nation’s top three most expensive places for renters: all... by aphextron on Friday June 15, 2018 @03:27PM (#17322749)
>I may be wrong, but I believe in the US, the coal mining companies constructed these as well. This led to the workers essentially becoming indentured servants. [citation needed]

Yep. It also led to one of the bloodiest government orchestrated massacres in US history when striking miners were cleared from their homes in Ludlow, Colorado by the national guard [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

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