{"product_id":"alfred-dolge","title":"Alfred Dolge","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlfred Dolge, who pioneered the world's first employer-based pension, disability compensation and profit-sharing programs, came from Germany in 1866 as a skilled piano maker and made a fortune manufacturing piano components. Inspired by his father's revolutionary past, as well as by such diverse authors as Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Dolge set out to establish a social democratic utopia in central New York state where working people could share in the wealth they created. Yet in 1898 he was forced into bankruptcy through a betrayal by his closest advisers and all his promises became impossible to fulfill. This short biography is designed to introduce to the contemporary reader a long neglected forerunner of social security programs in the United States and other liberal democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Cooney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44305800593569,"sku":"9781111131876","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1rer4k95-front-shortedge-384_00dfa28c-1a3e-43e8-8310-b66d1f0d436a.jpg?v=1748417402","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/alfred-dolge","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}