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The Quality of Services in Company Towns: Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s

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  • Fishback, Price V.
  • Lauszus, Dieter

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Coal company towns were infamous, being described as exploitive, and charged with providing low-quality services, like sanitation. Yet, the quality of sanitation in coal towns in 1922 appears similar to that in cities of similar size, although lagging behind that in major cities. Within the coal region, company and independent towns provided similar levels of sanitation. The quality of sanitation in company towns varied in response to cost-related factors, including town age, population, and natural location. Meanwhile, workers were mobile and demanded compensating increases in wage rates in towns with lower-quality sanitation and higher rents.

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  • Fishback, Price V. & Lauszus, Dieter, 1989. "The Quality of Services in Company Towns: Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(1), pages 125-144, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:49:y:1989:i:01:p:125-144_00
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    1. Price V. Fishback & Werner Troesken & Trevor Kollmann & Michael Haines & Paul W. Rhode & Melissa Thomasson, 2011. "Information and the Impact of Climate and Weather on Mortality Rates during the Great Depression," NBER Chapters, in: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present, pages 131-167, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Commander, Simon & Nikoloski, Zlatko & Plekhanov, Alexander, 2011. "Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia," IZA Discussion Papers 6034, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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