The Company Town (45 page)

beginning of

housing

migrant workers

Phillips Petroleum and

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.

Olmsted, John Charles

Olney, Richard

One Minute Washer

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

OptiSolar

Oregon

Orwell, George

Oscar Meyer & Co.

Osgood, John

OSHA.
See
Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Other America
(Harrington)

Ottumwa, Ia.

Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
(Strong)

Out of This Furnace
(Bell)

Pacific Lumber Co.
See also
Scotia, Ca.

Palmer, A. Mitchell

Pantex, Tx.

Parsons, George

Pascagoula, Ms.

Paternalism

Paterson, N. J.

Patten, Simon N.

Peabody Coal Co.

Pennsylvania Steel Co.

People's Party

PepsiCo

Perkins, George W.

Permian Basin, Tx.

Pew, J. Edgar

Phelps Dodge Corp.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad

Philanthropy

Philco-Ford

Phillips, Frank

Phillips, L. E.

Phillips Petroleum Co.

Phoenixville, Ct.

Pickens, T. Boone

Pillowtex Corp.

Pinkerton Detective Agency

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pocahontas, Va.

Populism

Port Arthur, Tx.

Port Gamble, Wa.

Postville, Ia.

Poverty

Procter & Gamble

Prohibition

Project

Proprietors of Locks and Canals

Prostitution

Pueblo, Co.

Pullman, George

Pullman, Il.

Pullman Palace Car Co.

Race, racism

coal-mining towns and

Kannapolis, N.C. and

shipbuilding towns and

steel-mill towns and

textile-mill towns and

war-industry towns and

Railroads

Rand, Ayn

Ranger, Tx.

Rath Packing Co.

Raytheon Co.

RCA

Reagan, Ronald

Red Harvest
(Hammett)

Redmond, Wa.

Register, Cheri

Religion

Republican Party, Republicans

Research and Development

Reuther, Walter

Rhodes, Richard

Richmond, Ca.

Roane-Anderson

Robinson, George O.

Robinson, Harriet

Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

Rockefeller, John D., Sr.

Rockefeller, William

Rogers, Henry H.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rowley, Ralph

Rubashkin, Sholom

Russell Sage Foundation

Ryan, John D.

Saarinen, Eero

Saco, Me.

Saloons

San Francisco, Ca.

Satellite Cities
(Taylor)

Save the Redwoods League

Schenectady, N.Y.

Schwab, Charles M.

Scotia, Ca.

Scotia Men's Club

Scribner's
magazine

Scrip system

Sears, Roebuck & Co.

“A Second Peep at Factory Life” (Baker)

Segregation.
See
Race, racism

September

SEUM.
See
Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures

Shell Oil Co.

Shipbuilding towns

Silver mining

Sinclair, Upton

Sioux Falls, S.D.

Six Companies consortium

Skellytown, Tx.

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

Skip to My Lou
(Camp)

Slater, Samuel

Slatersville, R. I.

Slavery

Slums

Smithfield Foods Co.

Smyrna, Tn.

Snyder, Howard

Social entrepreneurship

Socialism

“The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” (Friedman)

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (SEUM)

Sour Lake, Tx.

South Carolina

South Dakota

Southern Railroad

Spam

Sparrows Point, Md.

Sports

Sprint Communications Co.

SS
Robert E. Peary

Standard Oil Co.

Stanley Home Products

Starr, Kevin

State of the Nation
(Dos Passos)

Steel-mill towns

corporate welfarism and

Fairfield, Ala.

Gary, In.

home ownership and

Homestead, Pa.

immigrant labor in

labor and

race and racism in

social critics and

Sparrows Point, Md.

union organization and

Vandergrift, Pa.

wages and

working hours and

Steelton, Pa.

Steel Worker Organizing Committee (SWOC)

Stillman, James

Stimson, Henry L.

Stirling Energy Systems

St. Louis, Mo.

Stone, Edward Durell

Stonega, Va.

Storm Lake, Ia.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Strong, Josiah

Styer, William

Sullivan, Louis

Sun Oil Co.

Sun Power Corp.

SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
(Kanter)

Swing Shift
(Fabry)

Swift & Co.

SWOC.
See
Steel Worker Organizing Committee

Szilard, Leo

Tabasco Sauce

Tarbell, Ida

Taxation

Taylor, Graham Romeyn

Taylor, Myron

Technology

Television

Tennessee Coal & Iron

Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co.

Tennessee Coal & Mining Co.

Tennessee Eastman (Kodak)

Texaco (Texas Co.)

Textile-mill towns

British

Chicopee, Ma.

child labor and

decline of

immigrant labor in

Kannapolis, N.C.

Lowell, Ma.

in New England

origins of

paternalism and

prices and

race and racism in

South and

sports and

technology and

union organization and

in United States

Waltham, Ma.

wages and

women and

work described

working hours and

Textile Workers Organizing Committee

Textile Workers Union of America

Thoreau, Henry David

Tides Foundation

Timber-mill towns

environment and

labor relations in

Scotia, Ca.

taxation and

Times
of London

Torrance, Ca.

Tourism and travel

The Town and the City
(Kerouac)

Toyota Corp.

Travis, Merle

Trinidad, Co.

Turner Construction Co.

Twain, Mark

Tyrone, N.M.

Tyson Foods Inc.

UAW.
See
United Auto Workers

UMWA.
See
United Mine Workers of America

Union Carbide Corp.

Union organization

Butte strike (1917) and

coal-mining towns and

Corning, N.Y. and

Hershey, Pa. and

Kohler Co. and

Lowell, Ma. and

Manhattan Project and

Maytag Co. and

Meatpacking towns and

Phelps Dodge Corp. and

Pullman, Il. and

Richmond, Ca. and

steel-mill towns and

textile-mill towns and

United Auto Workers (UAW)

United Chocolate Workers

United Electrical Workers

United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

United Packinghouse Workers of America

United States

company towns and

consumerism in

economic evolution of

oil in

socialism in

textile industry in

urban growth in

United Textile Workers (UTW)

Urban growth

U.S.A.
(Dos Passos)

U.S. Coal and Coke Co.

U.S. Coal and Oil Co.

U.S. Coal Commission

U.S. Maritime Commission

U.S. Steel
See also
Gary, In.

Utopian towns

architecture and

Corning, N.Y.

education and

Hershey, Pa.

high-tech companies and

Lowell, Ma.

paternalism and

Pullman, Il.

religion and

Richmond, Ca.

Scotia, Ca.

timber-mill towns

UTW.
See
United Textile Workers

The Valley of Fear
(Doyle)

Valsetz, Or.

Vance, Al.

Vandergrift, Jacob Jay, Sr.

Vandergrift, Pa.

Van der Rohe, Mies

Velasquez, David

Voice of Industry
newspaper

Volkswagen

Wagner, Robert

Wall Street

Wal-Mart

Waltham, Ma.

Walton, William Leslie

Wang Laboratories

Ware, Norman

Ware Village, Ma.

War-industry towns

Hanford, Wa.

Los Alamos, N. M.

Oak Ridge, Tn.

Richmond, Ca.

War of

War Production Board

Washing machines

Washington state

Watanabe, Katsuaki

Waterloo, Ia.

WBA.
See
Workingmen's Benevolent Association

“A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers” (Thoreau)

Weeks, W.C.

Weirton, W.V.

Welfare capitalism

Western Federation of Miners (WFM)

Westinghouse

West Virginia

West Virginia Mine Workers Union (WVMWU)

Wetherbee, Henry

WFM.
See
Western Federation of Miners

Whalen, Grover

Wheelwright, Ky.

Whig Party, Whigs

Whirlpool Corp.

Whitney, Eli

Whyte, William H.

Wichita Falls, Tx.

Widen, W.V.

Wigner, Eugene

Williams, Floyd

Wilson & Co.

Wilson, Edmund

Wilson, Woodrow

Wink, Tx.

Women

socialism and

textile-mill towns and

war industry and

Wood, Frederick

Wood, Leonard

Workingmen's Benevolent Association (WBA)

World's Columbian Exposition (1893)

World War I

World War II

Wright, Frank Lloyd

WVMWU.
See
West Virginia Mine Workers Union

Yahoo

YMCA

Young, Arthur H.

Zola, Emile

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Green, Hardy.

The company town : the industrial Edens and satanic mills that shaped the American economy / Hardy Green. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-0-465-02264-9

1. Company towns—United States—History. 2. Industries—United States—History. 3. Industrial relations—United States—History. I. Title.

HT123.G723 2010

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