Oh, my comment was not intended to gloss over any problems of the marginalized in the 1950s or to credit the elite with unions; my point is that there may have been some elite that took the concept of being benevolent seriously; the rest worked to dismantle any benefits to the middle class for their own (further) benefit.
Oh, my comment was not intended to gloss over any problems of the marginalized in the 1950s or to credit the elite with unions; my point is that there may have been some elite that took the concept of being benevolent seriously; the rest worked to dismantle any benefits to the middle class for their own (further) benefit.