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The site is historically significant due to its role as acompanytownfor shipyards during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Newman remained a closedcompanytownuntil 1981.
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Buxton was a classiccompanytown; it was unincorporated, and the company was the sole landlord.
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Anson'scompanytownhad a hospital, a school, and a company hotel.
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Cowell was acompanytownfor a cement company.
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Tahsis remained acompanytownuntil it was incorporated as a municipality in 1970.
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The rise of the mass-consumer culture, the decentralization of industrial production, and other factors which also contributed to the demise of thecompanytownduring the 1930s, deserves fuller consideration.
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I do not believe in thecompanytownstructure in which the employer owns everything— the place of employment, trading facilities and houses.
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It was the originalcompanytown, where the coal owners built and owned everything—including, for a time, the miners themselves.
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My area has bitter experience of acompanytown—it is a town dominated by one employer, with the community having to dance to his tune.
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Earlier, the rather horrific label of a "companytown" was bandied about, but it is absolutely meaningless.
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We argued the case of thecompanytown.
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It is not difficult, therefore, to envisage the impact of the changes on that small, tightly-knit community, which is virtually acompanytown.
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There is a special problem when owner-occupiers live in acompanytownand the company, in this case a coal mine, ceases to need their services.
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