History Main / CompanyTown

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-001-o5 One of the interpretations]] for the Wiki/SCPFoundation's Factory was this, but run by a MadScientist dabbling in the occult. Featuring everything from on-site accommodations for workers to breeding pits.

* In ''Series/ResidentEvil2022'', [[NewNeoCity New Raccoon City]] is as controlled by Umbrella as the former edition, a StepfordSuburbia patrolled by Umbrella's private militias and police. For exemple, Billie Wesker managed to get away from an accusation after her father ALbert Wesker threatened the complaining pupil's father with termination; said pupil even had to apologise to Billie!

* The ''Literature/DarthBane'' book ''Path of Destruction'' in the Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse has one of these in the form of the planet Apatros, owned by a mining corporation that does this. Dessel, later known as Darth Bane, grew up here with an alcoholic father that drove his family deep into debt through his drinking, and then died of an ([[SelfMadeOrphan apparent]]) heart attack but leaves Dessel with the debt. Even getting lucky at cards can't get the debt paid, because the pot has been deliberately capped to keep workers from paying off their debts in a single lucky night.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisiel Noisel]], in the Seine-et-Marne, grew along the fortunes of chocolate maker Menier: on 1825, it was only a village counting 200 and the company expanded the city enough it counted 2000 inhabitants by the 1870. The owners were powerful enough to be elected deputies and senators; a Menier always was makor from 1871 to 1959, when they sold the company. Said sale was perceived, by some workers, as a betrayal. The company provided housing to its workers and even maintained a farm to provide meat and vegetable. Today, Nestlé still dominate the city.

* For list of company towns in the world, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns see the other wiki.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'': "Citizen Khan" takes place in a small western mining town occupied solely by Khan Industries employees and a service establishment provider. The mine workers are stuck in indentured servitude, but this is because of the CorruptHick overseers (who are also robbing Khan) and Khan himself puts a stop to their theft and slave labor as soon as he finds out what's going on and visits the town.

Compare with OnlyShopInTown, there's usually more than one shop, but they're either in league with or owned by a single company; OneNationUnderCopyright, a MegaCorp owning a citystate or bigger; IndustrialGhetto, usually a part of larger city; IOwnThisTown, where one person is running things; {{Egopolis}}, a town named after the dictator who controls it; and ElaborateUniversityHigh (for a collegiate version).

* ''Film/TheRundown'' involves a mining town in a remote part of Brazil that's run this way, at around the present time. The boss of the town, Hatcher, is brutal with his workers and pays them a paltry wage, which necessitates borrowing money from him and getting so deep into debt with him that there's no hope of getting out of it. Mariana leads a group of rebels that oppose this arrangement, calling it nothing less than ''escravidão'' -- slavery.

* The ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' episode "Season's Greedings" had the Sliders land near a city sized mall that was effectively one of these, turned UpToEleven. Not only were prices exorbitant and wages low, but:

* ''Series/{{Constantine}}'': The second episode features a West Virginia town that was a DyingTown until a mining company showed up five years ago. Most of the owners are callous jerks, and it initially seems that their operations have unleashed evil spirits, but this turns out to be a RedHerring.

[[folder: Anime and Manga]]

[[folder: Comic Books]]

[[folder: Fan Works]]
* ''FanFic/{{Fragmentation}}'' covers events during [[TabletopGame/BattleTech the Marik Civil War]]. Anton Marik used Company Town tactics to pad his forces against his brother, by hiring mercenaries and then confiscating their equipment when they couldn’t pay for repairs after the battle. This backfired when [[OutsideContextHero Executive Outcomes]] provides evacuation to units, leaving only irreparable husks behind for Anton’s forces to waste time and money on.

[[folder: Film]]

[[folder: Literature]]

[[folder: Live-Action TV]]

[[folder: Music]]

[[folder: Theatre]]

-->Everybody hungry, everybody tired
-->Everybody slaves by the sweat of his brow
-->The wage is nothing and the work is hard
-->It's a graveyard in Hadestown
-->Way down Hadestown
-->Way down under the ground

[[folder: Video Games]]

[[folder: Web Comics]]

[[folder: Web Original]]

[[folder: Western Animation]]

[[folder: Real Life]]

When a town is controlled by a single company, you have a company town. In RealLife these were popular in the days before automobiles allowed workers to freely commute. A company would build a town to provide local services such as libraries and general stores. The downside was that many companies [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging price gouged]] and used [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage debt bondage]] to keep their employees from leaving for a better job in a form of IndenturedServitude. Their prevalence was one of the factors that led to the formation of labor unions in the USA in the '20s and '30s, often with violent resistance from these companies, who employed {{Pinkerton Detective}}s or similar to suppress labor organizing and strikes. Not all company towns were bad; some were created to provide a better standard of living and create jobs. Others exist simply because the town in question is so remote, no one else wants to move in.

* Film/{{Shorts}}: The town of Black Falls Community is owned and founded by the CEO of the Black Box, Inc.. All the adults that live there work for the company, and if they are fired they and their family are forcefully evicted from the town

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The kingdom of Cresce uses high-tech super-expensive magic programming on every single coin, which feature genetic identification and procedural tracking, all to control every town's meagre wages so that any work done in their cities can only be used to requisition supplies from their government with government-regulated prices. Considering that most of the world suspects that the queen is a sociopath, this lack of economy makes sense.
** And then horribly deconstructed after Glasceau makes his move and unleashes a titanic murder machine made from the pain and suffering of the afterlife on Ethelmik. Since the town doesn't have an economy to salvage, the Cresian militia comes to wipe them out, thinking they're no better than vermin for the crime of living in the same town that birthed that monstrosity. Every named character is horrified.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-08-16 Namechecked and defied]] by Sanctum Adroit, a firmly LawfulGood [[LawEnforcementInc law enforcement company]], who have a strict "No Company Towns" policy. Requiring Massey, the lawyer for [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Tagon's Toughs]], to explain he's representing a newly established nation-state that's contracted his employer for defense, not the Toughs themselves.

* In the GameMod ''VideoGame/StardewValleyExpanded'', selling the Community Center to [=JojaCorp=] ends up transforming Pelican Town into one of these.

[[folder: Fanfiction]]