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En una resenya del libro 'The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy'. By Hardy Green. (el titulo ya se las trae) aparecida en el economist, me quedo de piedra leyendo:
Company towns usually came in one of two forms—the satanic and the Utopian. The satanic type were little better than gulags, where workers were forced to live in company shacks and spend their money in company shops. You could pass a lifetime in a company town without knowing any real freedom. But many other towns were monuments to the Utopian spirit. Benevolent bosses such as Milton Hershey, a chocolate king, and Henry Kaiser, a shipping magnate, went out of their way to provide their workers not just with decent houses but with schools, libraries and hospitals. This Utopian impulse inevitably went hand-in-hand with benevolent bossiness. Hershey served as his town’s mayor, constable and fire chief and employed a squad of “jovenlandesal police” to spy on the workers.
Urban development in America: Monuments to power | The Economist
y se quedan tan anchos!! el economist obviamente no tiene mayor interes en hablar de las satanicas y se centra en las utopicas. Alguien sabe que son esas ciudades factoria satanicas? . Es una metafora o es literal?
Company towns usually came in one of two forms—the satanic and the Utopian. The satanic type were little better than gulags, where workers were forced to live in company shacks and spend their money in company shops. You could pass a lifetime in a company town without knowing any real freedom. But many other towns were monuments to the Utopian spirit. Benevolent bosses such as Milton Hershey, a chocolate king, and Henry Kaiser, a shipping magnate, went out of their way to provide their workers not just with decent houses but with schools, libraries and hospitals. This Utopian impulse inevitably went hand-in-hand with benevolent bossiness. Hershey served as his town’s mayor, constable and fire chief and employed a squad of “jovenlandesal police” to spy on the workers.
Urban development in America: Monuments to power | The Economist
y se quedan tan anchos!! el economist obviamente no tiene mayor interes en hablar de las satanicas y se centra en las utopicas. Alguien sabe que son esas ciudades factoria satanicas? . Es una metafora o es literal?
