Company housing
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The boarding house and the payroll office on the same street
Rent deducted from wages: the housing that made leaving expensive
Selling the company housing stock to its tenants: who could afford to buy
Debt to the company store was deducted before the paycheck was paid
Company towns built for one industry and left with one industry
Why some company towns survived the closure and others emptied in a decade
Living in a town where your landlord signs your paycheck
Planning a company town: housing blocks laid out around the factory shift
Dormitory housing tied to the job: what happens on the day you are fired
Bunkhouse rules and the workers who were not allowed to bring families
Workers who lost the job also lost the house in the same week
The company store was the only shop for forty miles and it priced accordingly
Why companies stopped building housing for workers
When the mill owned the houses and the jobs and the water
Family quarters on a mining camp: three rooms and a shared washhouse
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