ABSTRACT
The stress on equality of rights, to which social and public life in the United States is geared, is even to be found inside capitalist businesses. Even here the employer does not confront the worker as the Lord who demands obedience, which was and is the usual case in old Europe with its feudal traditions. There was no question of the worker having first to engage in long conflict with the employer for the equality between them to be formally recognised. Today even English workers are still astonished at the respectful tone that employers and foremen in the United States adopt towards the worker, and they are astonished at the licence given to the American worker even in his workplace; he is 'freed from what one may call vexatious supervision'. American employers realised perfectly how to interest the worker in the success of the business in order to identify his interests to some extent with those of the capitalists.
