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Humans have enjoyed living next to their workplace (their fields) for millenia and enjoyed it. The industrial era is the uncomfortable abberation, not the other

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• stakhanov 8y ago
  +1 on that. And company housing is anything but a new idea either. During the post-WW2 reindustrialization of Europe, it was the norm when a big industrial company set up shop somewhere that they would build huge housing estates for their employees right on campus and even facilities like allotment gardens in rural areas, so people can have a garden at the weekend and stuff like that. And this is making a comeback. Munich, for example, is having such an overheated housing market that it's becoming extremely difficult for companies based here to take in new employees from outside, so they've starting getting into the business of providing company housing.
  • jahewson 8y ago
    Indeed, some mill owners in 1850s Britain built (good) housing and sometimes entire villages for their workers.
    • paganel 8y ago
      The same happened in former Austro-Hungary. The bad thing was when said owners decided that they should impose their moral precepts on their workers: "it's bad having fun and drinking till late at night on Sundays because no-one will come to work sober on Mondays, so let's punish those workers who are seen as encouraging this behavior". It was also not fun for the workers/tenants being forced to buy all their food stuff from the owners' shops, who in fact had imposed a monopoly in feeding their workers. That's pretty close to servitude, if you ask me.
  • EADGBE 8y ago
    This was also common in Slave America, too.