Corporate memory is notoriously short. Modern CEOs speak of flat hierarchies, agile pods, and distributed authority as a necessary invention in the advent of AI. This historic amnesia ignores a grim reality. The true genesis of workplace autonomy lies in the coal mines of South Yorkshire during the mid-twentieth century.

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