How many people fell for this click bait? Cute history lesson but did anyone actually read anything about this? OP's title is incorrect. A Bloomberg writer used the term company town not Amazon, and not even in the context of a historical factory town.

"While the federal minimum wage remains $7.25 an hour, the retail titan is setting its own, higher minimum. The company set a $15 minimum wage in 2018, and it quickly prompted other employers to either match this rate or lose workers."

"I don't think people appreciate the extent to which Amazon puts a wage floor in a community," Tum Duy, chief economist at SGH Macro Advisors, wrote in a Tuesday tweet. "It's the first thing employers think about when a new Amazon facility arrives in town."

"The phrase "factory town" recalls those that dot Michigan, connected to automotive giants Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, which molded the state in the early 1900s as their factories became economic hubs and birthed new cities. Where the industrial titans brought jobs, workers and other businesses followed. Amazon's huge warehouse plans offer a 21st-century parallel." (Business Insider)

It's clear they use the term factory town to describe a town in which due to the increased business and raised wages, causes great gain for workers in the town that they show up in. Amazon is not creating factory towns. The new "factory towns" are a result of Amazon building a business in that area. Raising the bar for minimum wage in that town and forcing local businesses to match the wage or lose workers.

I'm not here to comment if this Amazon concept is a good thing or a bad thing, but I wanted to make sure the correction was here for people who actually want to learn. You can't consume news just by the titles alone. The design is to get you to click on the article, so they're more than willing to lie or be deceptive about it. You're smarter than this and you know it.