Corporate cities: definition, characteristic features, historical fate
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2017.01.041Keywords:
company town, single-industry town, social engineering, paternalism, industrialization.Abstract
The paper examines the characteristic features of company towns based on case studies from Ukraine and the United States in the period of the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. These towns were built around an industrial enterprise; thus, they were geographically isolated and dominated by a single industry.
The paper argues that, due to their economic and political monopoly, companies in these settlements had a unique opportunity to run social experiments with their labor communities in order to create a loyal workforce. Social welfare programs were one, but not the only element in these endeavors.
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