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company housing  

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  • In the United States, employers have provided housing to workers in mining, lumbering, textiles, and a handful of other industries. Company towns developed largely because the work sites were located in isolated, largely unsettled regions; some manufacturers in suburbs housed skilled workers to discourage turnover. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Company Housing]

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