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Appalachian company towns
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What experts have said about Appalachian company towns
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Company towns historically tied widows’ housing security to immediate mine employment.
“if a wife passed, or sorry, a husband passed, in the mines, the wife had to bounce out of town. Or get our kids in the mines immediately. Or else you're losing everything because the company owned all the real estate.”
Open the episode · Skid Row To Appalachia: The Forgotten People Of Rural America - Peter Santenello - #1132Listen at 1:05:53
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