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Professor Richard Sylla reflects on corporations' treatment of employees in the 1950s-1980s
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Excerpt from Marketplace -- "After World War II, American companies 'pretty much had the world to themselves,' Sylla said. Most of their rivals in Europe and Japan were rebuilding after the war’s destruction, so big companies were raking in cash and didn’t have any issue being generous. 'When we compare that time to today, we find everyone seemed to share in the prosperity, from the corporate executives right down to the assembly line workers,' Sylla said."
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Additional coverage appeared on Business Insider.
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Additional coverage appeared on Business Insider.