Technotopia: The New Face of the Company Town

Did you think the world's richest entities were governments? Think again! 71 of the richest 100 organizations are corporations, not countries. Is a high-tech version of the old-tech company town in store for humans? This week is all about trying to answer what seems like a simple question - would you want to live in a town that's run by the government, or one that's run by a bright and shiny high-tech giant?

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ESSAY REFERENCES:

Difficulties of Unionization in a Company Town: https://prospect.org/economy/company-towns-still-us/

Engels, F. The Condition of the Working Class in England (London: Panther Books, 1969), pp. 80-96. Originally written in 1844.

Fordlandia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

Fortune 500 Global list 1990-Present: https://fortune.com/global500/

Fortune 500 List 1955-2019, text only: https://github.com/cmusam/fortune500/blob/master/csv/fortune500-2019.csv

Green, H. (2010). The company town: The industrial Edens and satanic mills that shaped the American economy. New York: Basic Books.

KPIX CBS SF News Report. (April 6 2021) Plans Unveiled For Massive Google Village In Downtown San Jose. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoPkEl3to3c

OECD Revenue by Country, 1990- 2019: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RS_GBL

Peters, J. Renders of Googl’es Gigantic San Jose Campus, Downtown West. Vox, October 8, 2020. URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21508416/google-gigantic-san-jose-campus-downtown-west

Samsung Digital City: https://medium.com/@matevstraus/samsung-in-suwon-a-city-of-its-own-a8b9020fa942

States vs Corporations: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2017.1389151

UN Report on Transnational Corps as among largest economic players (2002): https://unctad.org/press-material/are-transnationals-bigger-countries