Company Town Madeline Ashby
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

Huntsville, Alabama is known to many as "Rocket City." Nearly half of the city's jobs are connected to space and defense funding. Company Towns in the U.S 1880s to 1935. Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Among other things, the song illustrates one of the negative aspects of life in a mining town: becoming indebted to the company. Mills and smokestacks in Lowell, Massachusetts, considered by some historians to be the first real company town in the U.S. Nowhere is Volkswagen AG's widening emissions scandal being felt more acutely than in Wolfsburg, the ultimate company town in Germany. Definition of Company town – Our online dictionary has Company town information from A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture dictionary. A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is the only employer. Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company [Keith Petersen] on Amazon.com. Seattle, notorious for boom-and-bust cycles stretching back to the 19th century Alaska gold rush, is booming once again. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Yet company towns are the essence of America. The company provides infrastructure (housing, stores, transportation, sewage and water) to enable workers to move there and live. A town whose inhabitants are mainly dependent on one company for employment, housing, supplies, etc. In 1971, the Olin chemical company pulled out of Saltville, leaving the tiny town to fend for itself. A town whose residents are dependent on the economic support of a single firm for maintenance of retail stores, schools, hospitals, and housing. Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale.