the.com/worker communities
where the paycheck ends and the potluck begins.
means tight-knit social networks formed around a shared workplace or industry, where colleagues become neighbors, friends, and mutual aid.
from traces back to company towns and mill villages of the industrial revolution, where employers built housing, shops, and churches around the factory — control disguised as care, which sometimes accidentally grew into real solidarity.
company townspullman, illinois once housed workers rent-controlled by the boss
modern versiontech campuses now mimic villages with gyms and dorms
union rootsmany labor unions grew directly from these shared neighborhoods
double edgecan breed solidarity or total dependence on one employer