director of the center for the a functioning society at claremont graduate university's drucker institute and author of the new book the end of loyalty the rise and fall of good jobs in america rick welcome to the program. a thanks for having me great having you with us i grew up in that period when good jobs are plentiful i remember it well but can you describe it for those of members of our audience who weren't there and don't know what it was like people who were you know born after one nine hundred seventy eighty ninety whatever. yeah absolutely so my book which you mentioned the end of loyalty focuses on this period that really began right after world war two and continued on into the early one nine hundred seventy s. and it was a period where across a huge swath of the american workforce people enjoyed rising pay and ever improving benefits both health care benefits which went from pretty nonexistent in the one nine hundred forty s. to then having more than seventy percent of american workers covered with basic health care benefits which extended to their family members and you had