Tragically that was part of the idea of some of those concepts, connecting social security with social control.
For example Alfred Krupp pioneered a lot of those concepts in his business, next to company stores, company apartments, company hospitals and schools he also started having some sort of insurance for his workers, in case of sickness or disability you were secured by the company insurances.
Krupp didn’t do this out of the goodness of his heart, in part those programs secured productivity and helped attracting and keeping qualified workers. On the other hand those things were also leverage that could be used against the workers, especially against strikers, unionist, political agitators or social Democrats. Of course workers profited from those programs, but when you live in a company apartment, shop in company stores, go to company hospitals and schools, the company holds your pension and your health insurance all of that can be taken away when you go against Krupp, you’d loose everything.
Like I said up top, it was always a mix of social security and social control.
I’m a regular in a little Portuguese café, I always order a Galão and a tomato mozzarella Ciabatta. They display the Ciabatta in a basket out front and sometimes they’re empty when I come and I order a toast instead. Well this time the basket was empty I was about to order a toast but the cashier smiled at me and said ‘I saved a Ciabatta for you in the kitchen.’ That was really heartwarming :)