Creating Company Culture: Oil Company Camps in the Southwest, 1920-1960.

The article discusses the construction of oil company camps in the U.S. Oil companies established camps on the outskirts of flourishing oil towns as an option to the hard living conditions that were common in boomtowns. In the construction of camps, the company designated to perform more than simply meet the demand for shelter. It is averred that oil company camps include white-and blue-collar personnel and gathered the immediate need for housing for those worked in the field.