Company scrip is scrip (a substitute for government-issued legal tender or currency) issued by a company to pay its employees. It can only be exchanged in company stores owned by the employers. In the UK, such truck systems have long been formally outlawed under the Truck Acts. In the United States, mining and logging camps were typically created, owned and operated by a single company. These locations, some quite remote, were often cash poor; even in ones that were not, workers paid in scrip had little choice but to purchase goods at a company store, as exchange into currency, if even available, would exhaust some of the value via the exchange fee. With this economic monopoly, the employer could place large markups on goods, making workers dependent on the company, thus enforcing employee "loyalty". Lumber company scrip In 19th century United States forested areas, cash was often hard to come by. This was particularly true in lumber camps, where workers were commonly paid in company-issued scrip rather than government issued currency.In Wisconsin, for example, forest-products and lumber companies were...

The Morningstar mine scrip is a miscellaneous item in Fallout 2. It is used as an alternative currency in the town of Redding. They are backed by the Morningstar Mining Company and issued as payment to their workers. It consists of a small wooden token stamped with the Morningstar Mine company logo and has a face value of 5 NCR dollars.