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difficult for two previous CEOs—Laks was similarly self-assured. In February 2023, shortly before the transfer of power, he appeared alongside Schultz at a company town hall and field-tested his plan for keeping the Starbucks icon at bay: flattery. “I have seen the many things that he does that are

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governments, especially in colonized spaces. Plantation oligarchies created their own slave societies, early industrialists policed the domestic morality of their workers, and mining corporations ruled company towns. Still today most capitalists run their companies like little despotic governments, and most projects for more unfettered capitalism are projects for private power and private

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Board of Trade to various “line companies,” thereby forming a credit chain from farmers to urban retailers.27 The coal needs of the railroads created company towns in southern Appalachia and Colorado, where hundreds of thousands of workers mined hundreds of millions of tons of coal per year: 243 million tons by

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the Decline of Family Farming in England.” Economic History Review 65, no. 1 (2012): 26–60. Shifflett, Crandall. Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880–1960. University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Shorter, Edward, and Charles Tilly. Strikes in France, 1830–1968. Cambridge University Press, 1974. Shovlin

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site of the largest integrated steel mill in the world, and named after the founding chairman of US Steel, Elbert H. Gary. It was a company town through and through. When I went back for my fifty-fifth high school reunion in 2015, before Trump had become the fixture in the landscape

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2010. As recently as 2008, it was $19.3 billion. 5. Dawn C. Chmielewski, “Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger Outlines Role of Modern Studio Chief,” Company Town (blog), Los Angeles Times, October 17, 2009. 6. Brooks Barnes and Michael Cieply, “In Hollywood, Grappling with Studios’ Lost Clout,” New York Times, January 18

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who employed you—you are seen as handing a public relations gift to the other side. It can be career suicide in Washington, the ultimate company town, to speak out in this way. “Don’t talk to the press” is one of the most important commandments for virtually anyone who works in

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, and poor health of workers and their families. Their tactics included calling on Pinkerton thugs to break strikes, pitting workers against one another, or organizing “company towns” to keep workers in a perpetual state of dependency. Their conspicuous consumption stood in stark contrast to the poverty wages they paid. There are obscenely

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-dollar company.”12 Case Study 2: Tongal—Genius TV Commercials at One One-Hundredth the Price13 L.A., where I live, is something of a company town, with Hollywood being the company. As a result, every coffee shop and bus stop is packed full of scriptwriters, producers, and directors. Mix that incredible

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