Green made Nabisco a benevolent employer. Within three years of its founding, he installed a system for the company’s employees to buy stock on cut-rate terms, making them what he called “associate proprietors.” He refused to employ child labor in an era when it was common. And although he expected his workers to churn out America’s snacks from dawn to dusk, in brutally hot and often hazardous bakeries, he also felt responsible for providing them nutritious meals.
