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by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words

cow that needs to be protected at all costs, even if the business is going downhill. Lacking any alternatives, the nation may become like a company town entirely dependent on the local plant and devastated when it leaves. Finally, if the government seizes enough power to tax and redistribute—perhaps by the

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words

more power and money. And some of them were pretty far along. In 2023, reports emerged that Elon Musk was building what was essentially a company town called Snailbrook, Texas. He was believed to own thousands of acres around Austin,16 where he had also developed a compound housing some of his

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,000 residents of nearby Brownsville, where SpaceX and its employees also had a large presence, the area felt like a Musk company town—especially when SpaceX rocket launches shook their homes.18 Company towns and charter cities promised something that, according to a certain worldview, had been sadly lost: a return to the frontier

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-to-u-s-investments/ 16 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/18/is-elon-musk-creating-a-utopian-city-the-hellish-heavenly-history-of-company-towns 17 https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-texas-town-52386513 18 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-brownsville-texas

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder · 30 Jan 2024 · 355pp · 133,726 words

is turned into copper wiring used in millions of products, including electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines. Morenci, I quickly learned, was a true company town. Nearly everything within its borders was paid for and operated by Freeport. If the industry’s relatively high salaries were an attempt to keep its

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

by John Fabian Witt · 14 Oct 2025 · 735pp · 279,360 words

to organize a union, the miners went out on strike, demanding higher wages, safer working conditions, and relief from the exploitation of company stores and company towns. Most of all, they demanded recognition of the United Mine Workers of America as their union, a step that many workers reasonably thought would be

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, followed his elders, defiantly defending the “open shop” system in which the firm negotiated with individual employees, not with a union.16 In Colorado’s company towns, coal-mine operators like CF&I had powerful leverage over vulnerable workers and their families. Mine guards “hastened to the little huts where miners lived

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,” one contemporary recounted, and “threw their families and furniture into the street,” evicting them from their homes and from the company towns in which they had lived. Almost instantly, a series of tent cities sponsored by the United Mine Workers sprang up around southern Colorado’s coal

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. This time, the miners were committed to getting the better of it. With few further casualties of their own, the strikers destroyed six mines, smashed company towns, and killed more than thirty company guards, militiamen, and strikebreakers. Only when President Wilson ordered federal troops into southern Colorado did the roaring guns of

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their vision of social life into the fact of the matter. Hard-to-reach mining settlements in remote locations and hardscrabble conditions could tip from company towns to union strongholds, especially when a few local officials and merchants allied with the miners, which they sometimes did. When gold and silver refinery workers

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speech and protest of the kind the ACLU defended for organized labor. “Civil liberties in the coal baronries”—places like Ludlow, Colorado, or the coal company towns of Pennsylvania and West Virginia—flourished “compared to civil liberties among the Negroes of the South.” What followed from this fact, according to Johnson and

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from one of two Fisher plants, Roy and the UAW local called for workers to sit down where they were. Victor hurried into the GM company town to join as an auxiliary union staffer. Walter raced back and forth from the west side of Detroit with reinforcements of pickets, supplies, and food

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words

, lawmakers in Nevada floated a similar idea, suggesting they might let corporations that relocate to their state write their own laws—the return of the company town a century later, made over as the “innovation zone.”15 In the United Kingdom, the Conservative government made the creation of a chain of duty

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recent past for a sense of what this would mean in practice. Well into the twentieth century, the United States was dotted with hundreds of company towns. Built and owned by private individuals, these were enclaves of paternalistic rule. Houses were built by the company, with their appearance and color fixed by

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Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City, ed. Setha Low (New York: Routledge, 2018). 15. Kimberly Adams and Benjamin Payne, “Nevada Considers Bringing Back the ‘Company Town’ for the Tech Industry,” Marketplace, June 30, 2021, https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/nevada-considers-bringing-back-the

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-company-town-for-the-tech-industry/. 16. Quinn Slobodian, “Rishi Sunak’s Free Ports Plan Reinvents Thatcherism for the Johnson Era,” Guardian (UK edition), March 1, 2020,

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, 1994), 15–17. 71. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, 173. 72. Linda Carlson, Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003), 193. 73. Carlson, Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest, 12. CHAPTER 7: YOUR OWN PRIVATE LIECHTENSTEIN 1. Peggy Durdin, “Life in Shangri-Liechtenstein,” New

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enterprise and by invitation revival of colonization Columbus, Christopher commodification, utopia and Commonwealth of Southern States communism vs. capitalism collapse of communities, self-policing by company towns Confucian capitalism Conservative Party (UK) container ships container terminals contract(s) “contract citizens” contractual communities social contract Cool Britannia corporate governance Corporation of London corporations

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 22 Apr 2019 · 462pp · 129,022 words

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

Free Ride

by Robert Levine · 25 Oct 2011 · 465pp · 109,653 words

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

Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

by Tyler Cowen · 8 Apr 2019 · 297pp · 84,009 words

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

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

by Kory Stamper · 14 Mar 2017 · 341pp · 95,752 words

Heritage Dictionary, has occasionally sent me links to promotional videos pharmaceutical companies have put together for various products. Both Josh and Steve regularly call up companies, town halls, and famous people (mostly Nobel Prize winners and presidents) to ask them how they say the name of their product, their hometown, or themselves

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words

Stalinist industrialization.16 On October 16, 2008, Igor Sechin, Putin’s right hand, convened an industrywide brainstorming session on the car industry at Togliatti, the company town of AvtoVAZ, the bankrupt inheritor of the Soviet car industry. He announced an immediate $1 billion loan for AvtoVAZ from VEB that would keep the

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