caa a22 4500 386329745 CHVBK 20180307111708.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700007361 doi S0022050700007361 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700007361 The Quality of Services in Company Towns: Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s [Elektronische Daten] Coal company towns were infamous, being described as exploitive, and charged with providing low-quality services, like sanitation. Yet, the quality of sanitation in coal towns in 1922 appears similar to that in cities of similar size, although lagging behind that in major cities. Within the coal region, company and independent towns provided similar levels of sanitation. The quality of sanitation in company towns varied in response to cost-related factors, including town age, population, and natural location. Meanwhile, workers were mobile and demanded compensating increases in wage rates in towns with lower-quality sanitation and higher rents. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1989 Fishback Price V. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, and Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin Lauszus Dieter Professor of Economics, Universitaet Bielefeld, West Germany The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/1(1989-03), 125-144 0022-0507 49:1<125 1989 49 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700007361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700007361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fishback Price V. Associate Professor of Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, and Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lauszus Dieter Professor of Economics, Universitaet Bielefeld, West Germany NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 49/1(1989-03), 125-144 0022-0507 49:1<125 1989 49 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge