Lynch homes

Alba, J., J. Lynch, B. Weitz, C. Janiszewski, R. Lutz, A. Sawyer, and S. Wood, Interactive Home Shopping Consumer, Retailer, And Manufacturing Incentives To Participate In Electronic Marketplaces, Journal of Marketing, 61, July (1997), 38-53. 

Homing NR, Lynch JP, Sundaresan SR, et al. Tacrolimus therapy for persistent or recurrent acute rejection after lung transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 1998 17 761-767. 

The physical designs of Benham and Lynch enhanced the companies social control over their residents. The model nature of the towns kept employees in place with work, homes, stores, schools, health care, churches and recreation provided, there was little need to go outside. The natural terrain and controlled entry points, similar to modern gated communities, limited access by unwanted outsiders. Company officials were quickly alerted by security personnel when anyone new arrived in town. Partially in keeping with prevailing Jim Crow laws, but also to maintain workforce and community control, racially segregated housing was a standard practice (Figs. 106.5 and 106.6). 

The company towns of the Appalachian coalfields provide a telling look at the systems of social control exercised by corporate America in the early 20th century. However, their story is not one of simple historical curiosity. They are part of a continuum that runs from ancient Egypt into the 21st century. Less than 200 mi (322 km) from mine Portal 31 in Lynch, Kentucky, is the contemporary company town of Georgetown, Kentucky, home of Toyota Motor Manufacturing. 

If you talk to John Wilson, even now, with two of his boys dead, one in jail, and his old home place gone, you might be surprised to find out how much he still believes in his white friends. Didn t those friends of his know that Jerome was going to be lynched Yes, but.. . . Couldn t they have kept Jerome from being lynched if they had wanted to Yes, but. ... 

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