Indeed, in the first decades of the 20th century, corporate paternalism was the norm in big firms.

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At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism.

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He shows how employer paternalism changed during this period, as corporate welfare plans, for instance, came to supplement public pensions programmes and persuasion replaced coercion as a management tool.

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