company town

Examples of company town in the following topics:

• Mill Towns and Company Towns

  • One of the first company towns in the United States was Pullman, Chicago, developed in the 1880s just outside the Chicago city limits.
  • The town, entirely company-owned, provided housing, markets, a library, churches, and entertainment for the 6,000 company employees and an equal number of dependents.
  • Another famous company town was McDonald, Ohio, which was created by the Carnegie Steel Company to house and serve the needs of its employees in the Youngstown, Ohio area.
  • At their peak there were more than 2,500 company towns, housing 3% of the US population.
  • Mill towns, sometimes planned, built, and owned as a company town, grew in the shadow of the industries.

• Introduction to Sustainable Production Locations

  • For example, in a process called ‘energy cascading', excess energy from one company (usually in the form of residual heat or steam) can be used to provide heating, cooling or system pressure for another.
  • Additional benefits associated with symbiotic setups involve a reduction in pollutants, a decrease in company regulatory burdens and lower demands on municipal infrastructures.
  • Nearby cities and towns benefit too, thanks to enhanced business and job development, increased tax revenues and reduced environmental concerns and health costs.

• The Pullman Strike

  • The Pullman Strike began in 1894 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a strike in response to wage cuts.
  • The Pullman Strike was a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroad companies that occurred in the United States in 1894.
  • The conflict began in the town of Pullman, Illinois, on May 11 when nearly 4,000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company began a wildcat strike in response to recent reductions in wages, bringing traffic west of Chicago to a halt.
  • Adding fuel to the fire, the railroad companies began hiring replacement workers (strikebreakers), which only increased hostilities.

• Factories, Working Women, and Wage Labor

  • As New England's textile industry took off, mill villages quickly grew into large factory towns, attracting rural workers from the surrounding countryside.
  • He memorized the design of textile machines, and on his return to the United States, he established the Boston Manufacturing Company.
  • Following his death in 1817, Lowell's associates built America's first planned factory town: the eponymous Lowell, Massachusetts.
  • In 1821, the young women employed by the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham went on strike for two days when their wages were cut.
  • Similar strikes occurred at Lowell and in other mill towns such as Dover, New Hampshire, where the women employed by the Cocheco Manufacturing Company ceased working in December 1828 after their wages were reduced.

• Scenario

  • Samstonian is a small suburban town about thirty minutes south of a large metropolitan area.
  • Most of the residents work for Nikron, a packaging factory on the outskirts of town.
  • Local social, cultural, and fundraising events are often partially sponsored by Nikron making the company an engrained and influential component of the community.
  • Because of the company's desire to maintain strong relations with the community, Nikron welcomed the town's help in further investigating the incident.
  • Samples revisited the original question with the entire class: Is the town's water supply being contaminated by pollutants from the factory?

• The Lowell System

  • Slater provided company-owned housing and stores, creating mill villages.
  • This new firm, the first in the nation to place cotton-to-cloth production under one roof, was incorporated as the Boston Manufacturing Company in 1814.
  • Despite the success of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the Charles River had limited potential as a power source.
  • This new settlement was incorporated as the town of Lowell in 1826.
  • This system was replicated elsewhere throughout New England, often in mill towns developed by the Boston Associates.

• The Interactionist Perspective

  • They were called drunks, and it was not uncommon for them to be arrested or run out of a town.
  • During the 19th century, people who drank too much were considered "bad, lazy people. " They were called drunks, and it was not uncommon for them to be arrested or run out of a town.
  • Pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars treating illnesses such as fatigue, insomnia, and hyperactivity that may not actually be illnesses in need of treatment, but opportunities for companies to make more money.

• Lexington and Concord

  • As in 1768, the British again occupied the town.
  • General Gage stationed 3,500 troops in Boston, and from there he ordered periodic raids on towns where guns and gunpowder were stockpiled, hoping to impose law and order by seizing them.
  • A small company of British troops fired on a much larger column of colonial militia, which returned fire and eventually routed those troops; the British troops returned to the village center and rejoined the other troops there.
  • He persuaded the town's selectmen to surrender all private weapons in return for promising that any inhabitant could leave town.

• Sears Roebucks

  • Richard Sears knew that farmers often brought their crops to town, where they could be sold and shipped.
  • By 1894, the Sears catalog had grown to 322 pages, featuring sewing machines, bicycles, sporting goods, automobiles (produced from 1905–1915 by Lincoln Motor Car Works of Chicago, not related to the current Ford Motor Company brand of the same name), and a host of other new items.
  • He organized the company so that it could handle orders on an economical and efficient basis.
  • Shortly after Rosenwald joined the company, Alvah Roebuck resigned due to ill health; the company retained his name.
  • By 1895, the company was producing a 532-page catalog.

• The Homestead Strike

  • Picket lines were thrown up around the plant and the town, and 24-hour shifts established.
  • But the militia managed to keep its arrival in the town a secret almost to the last moment.
  • Within 20 minutes they had displaced the picketers; by 10:00 a.m., company officials were back in their offices.
  • The company could not operate for long with strikebreakers living on the mill grounds, and permanent replacements had to be found.
  • On July 18, the town was placed under martial law, further disheartening many of the strikers.