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For more information on company towns please see the following sources. This is a growing list, so I would appreciate any inputs!

Websites:

Company Towns: 1880s to 1935:This website housed at the Virginia Commonwealth University is a great start.


Company Towns:This page on the PBS website houses videos of people who grew up in company towns.


The Evolution of Company Towns:This article gives a brief overview of company towns.


America’s Company Towns, Then and Now:This Smithsonian Magazine article offers another overview of company towns.



Books:

Crawford Margaret. 1996. Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (Haymarket Series). Verso.

Green, Hardy. 2010. The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy. Basic Books.

Vergara Angela (ed.) 2011. Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Series). University of Georgia Press.