From Company Town to Post-Industrial: Inquiry on the Redistribution of Space and Capital with a Universal Basic Income

Abstract

This paper considers what effects a universal basic income could have on disrupting social and economic inequality in the tensions of urban/rural divide. She frames her inquiry on the political economy of land and labor in the collapse of coal industry “company towns” and its structural aftermath in Central Appalachia.

Keywords

• appalachia
• company town
• rural
• united states
• universal basic income
• urban