Safety devices neglected a. No disability insurance, death benefit maybe enough to bury him. But social mobility limited by discrimination a. Variety of services business might perform for employees that convince them it has their best interest at heart. Might include providing cheap housing, playground, health services, contributing to churches, schools, organizing social and athletic clubs and outings for employees.
Many firms organize own baseball teams.
These efforts undertaken to keep workers quiescent, keep out labor organizers or demands for higher wages. Paternalism worked best with immigrants, backgrounds from a more hierarchical societies made them more respectful of authority and grateful for its beneficence. At best, taken as a fringe benefit, partially compensating for a low wage. D. Workers control over workplace a.