![]() These company towns remained without their primary function and production. With the onset of globalisation and de-industrialisation, the Baťa Company closed most of its factories in the Western world, which left behind the old factories themselves as well as all the territorial and social elements of the former paternalist system. In these company towns, workers and their families were provided with an extensive variety of services, from advanced housing to medical, educational, sport and social activities. The company developed a comprehensive social and territorial system, involving the foundation of company towns with a specific paternalist philosophy. At the beginning of the 1930s, with the Great Depression and increasing protectionist measures, the Baťa Company also began with the establishment of sister companies abroad and factories in different countries such as France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, USA, Canada, India, etc. The Baťa Company evolved from a small shoe workshop at end of the 19th century in Zlín, today's Czech Republic, and became one of the biggest shoe producers in the whole world in the 20th century. The aim of our paper is to present the situation in different Baťa towns (batavilles) and to analyse what happened in them after the factories ceased to operate. ![]() The Baťa Company built dozens of factory towns around the globe, which were left without their primary function after production ended.
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