Word: paternalisme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While most companies do all they can to help with recreational and cultural projects, management takes pains to avoid dominating local governments or creating a feeling of passive dependence on company paternalism. When Shell built a new $75 million refinery in little Anacortes, Wash, last year, employees were advised to...
Management's imprint on community affairs is still apparent in some old established company towns. In Dow Chemical's Midland there are no hard liquor bars because "the Dow family wouldn't like it." In some company towns, particularly in the South, management frankly uses paternalism as...
That sort of army-knows-best paternalism embarrasses and angers many Colombians, who recall the country's free, self-governing past. But few would deny that things are at least better than they were 2½ years ago, and that confident General Rojas is firmly in power.
So far, community integration has not proved popular. It breaks a paternalism that Creole workers have come to like, and it bucks the Latin American tradition of centralized rather than community government. The plan is also open to the charge that Creole is evading established responsibilities. The company replies that...
"These can be dictated to us only by ourselves, who thoroughly know Belgian Africa. We know what imperatives are imposed upon us by our sovereignty, and this sovereignty must be exercised by us -without sharing." In other words, Belgium's particular paternalism (TIME, May 16) would continue to prevail...