I don’t want to dispute your findings, I put information there from the physical evidence of the model village he established for his workers at Port Sunlight. In its day it was years ahead of what most industrialists offered.
Henry Morton Stanley was a hero explorer of my childhood but in the last 20 years his history has been rewritten to tell a story of a white European who partnered with the King of Belgium to enslave the natives of Central Africa.
I don’t deny that the 17th to early 20th Century were a dark period for exploitation.
Lever, Ford,Carnegie, Getty through to Gates have exploited for their own gains.
It is the crimes and exploitation’s of the 21st Century that need to be focussed on.
For Levers legacy company that might be the workers on the tea plantations or the cocoa workers in west Africa that are being exploited by Unilever, Nestle, Mondelez and Mars.
Where do we stop?
I don’t want to dispute your findings, I put information there from the physical evidence of the model village he established for his workers at Port Sunlight. In its day it was years ahead of what most industrialists offered.
Henry Morton Stanley was a hero explorer of my childhood but in the last 20 years his history has been rewritten to tell a story of a white European who partnered with the King of Belgium to enslave the natives of Central Africa.
I don’t deny that the 17th to early 20th Century were a dark period for exploitation.
Lever, Ford,Carnegie, Getty through to Gates have exploited for their own gains.
It is the crimes and exploitation’s of the 21st Century that need to be focussed on.
For Levers legacy company that might be the workers on the tea plantations or the cocoa workers in west Africa that are being exploited by Unilever, Nestle, Mondelez and Mars.