Welch in his early career was kept in check in part by Oldtimers who were alive for the experience of the time of the Robber Barons, and the heyday of the Ameri

Welch in his early career was kept in check in part by Oldtimers who were alive for the experience of the time of the Robber Barons, and the heyday of the American Labor Union. These times were characterized by men willing to do violence to break strikers and likewise to coordinate to make it nigh impossible for the more narcissistic to ascend to power due to actual class solidarity. Welch wasn't a problem until what he feared, backlash from people who had been around for the last cycle of cruelty precipitated by his ideas, sufficiently died/attritioned out. Give Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames a read. He does an excellent job at laying out the pedigree of thought from slave/plantation management to modern American management theory, and charting out the trends and consequences that arise from political shifts in the equilibrium between capital and labor. https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Columbine/dp/1932360824 https://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Rebellion-Workplaces-Col...