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Company town The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spameach is the signature product of a company town in which one business, for better or worse, exercises a grip over the population. In The Company Town, Hardy Green, who has covered American business for over a decade, offers a compelling analysis of the emergence of these communities and their role in shaping the American economy, beginning in the countrys earliest years.From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the RD labs of Corning, New York from the coal mines of Ludlow, Colorado, to corporate campuses of todays major tech companies America has been uniquely open to the development of the single-company community.



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Hardy Green

Hardy Green is a former associate editor at BusinessWeek, where he was responsible for the magazine's lauded book-review coverage. He has written for Fortune, Reuters.com, and AOL's Daily Finance, and he has penned features on book publishing, travel, investing, business history, technology, and careers. He has taught history at Stony Brook University, from which he holds a PhD in U.S. History, and at New York's School of Visual Arts. USA Today called Green's first book, On Strike at Hormel, "the best accounting yet of a landmark labor-management confrontation," while Publisher's Weekly called it "an important study that will be of interest to executives as well as unionized workers." The author lives in New York City.



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