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.