The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy »

Hardy Green is a former Associate Editor at BusinessWeek, where he was responsible for the magazine’s book review coverage. He has written for Reuters.com, Fortune.com, and AOL’s Daily Finance, and penned features on book publishing, travel, investing, business history, technology, and careers. Green has taught history at Stony Brook University, from which he holds a Ph.D. in U.S. History. He lives in New York City.

The fascinating story of the development of American capitalism—for better and worse—through the history of the company town

The New York Times - Nancy F. Koehn

Mr. Green sprints…through all kinds of company towns, mostly past but some present. He draws his research from a range of historical and current sources…He uses these accounts, in tandem with a clean, engaging voice, to tell story upon story…Mr. Green has amassed a collection of important, well-told stories about the contradictions, inequities and possibilities of American capitalism.