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My granddad worked in Olivetti's Buenos Aires factory in the 1960s (he had made foreman due to knowing enough Piedmontese to impress upper management). Workers there had access to:

- Worker's social club, complete with pool

- subsidized housing at cost, rent-to-own

- a wholesale "majorista" style shop where they'd buy in bulk and sell to workers' families at cost.

Say what you want about the fault of paternalism, at least they were thinking about employee welfare. Argentina's economy sucked at the time and they had to close. The factory now produces cigarettes under a phillip morris subsidiary (iirc).