Talk:Tied cottage

Just listing refs here that are pertinent to the article so I don't lose them. Tony Holkham (talk) 15:53, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Farmers Weekly article
 * Google search


 * ✅ Tony Holkham (talk) 23:53, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Company-owned houses
just happened upon this article (poking around, following interesting links). i'm wondering if there should be a section here--or maybe just a mention of it, with some links--about the use of company-owned houses?

i only know of the ones...from/about...the U.S. mining companies. where, basically, a/the company owned the entire town, where the workers/employees of the company lived. or were forced to live, as there wasn't really anywhere else to live. and where the wages earned by employees, basically, were simply returned to the company owners because the companies also owned any stores where employees could buy, you know, food.

it seems related to the older 'practice' of tied cottages. but i could be wrong about that. it just seems a little...limited...to only have info here about the 'practice' of "tying" workers to their employers in regards to agriculture. i'm sure that, beyond mining, there are many other examples, both in the U.S. and around the world.Colbey84 (talk) 05:13, 8 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Have you looked at Company town. I think what we have here is  and two calves- tied cattoges was written from a legal point of view of how a feudal anacronism persisted through to the 1970s- and US tabula rasa Company town - the company moves in, imports its labour and builds the accomodation-- works out the seam (mining) and moves on. We will have two groups of editors coming from different directions! Stage one is gather a handful of good reliable references- then to work out if there is enough to use to extend Company Town, start a new article or radically change what we have got here. Mill town also is related to all this. --ClemRutter (talk) 08:16, 8 April 2017 (UTC)