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Robert Reich: “We all went through a terrible war and before that, a terrible depression, the great depression. After the Second World…”

On the recordOctober 15, 2021
We all went through a terrible war and before that, a terrible depression, the great depression. After the Second World War, workers and managers, people who were unionized and even the non-union sector had kind of an unwritten rule, and that unwritten rule was as the companies did better, their workers would do better as well.
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Robert Reich
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Robert Reich reflects on the historical social contract between workers and companies post-World War II.

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