What did the call the money they used to pay when people lived in company towns in the 1800s? Scrip? You lived in company housing and got paid company scrip a

What did the call the money they used to pay when people lived in company towns in the 1800s? Scrip? You lived in company housing and got paid company scrip and could only spend it at the company store, at outrages rates. This sounds like step 1 of returning to that sort of system. Hyperbole to some degree, but it already happened once...