THE SPLIT
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THE SPLIT Book 1
4 parts · 12 h 28 min
Palo Alto and Mountain View, 1938 to 1981. Two men in a rented garage decide that the people who build the instruments will share what the instruments earn.
THE SPLIT Book 2
4 parts · 13 h 59 min
Prineville, Bentonville and Pasadena, 1917 to 2022. Three retailers decide, separately, to hand a fixed share of what the business earns to the people behind the counter. A tire dealer in central Oregon splits each store's profit with the men who run it.
THE SPLIT Book 3
4 parts · 14 h 11 min
Winona, Isla Vista and Dallas, 1967 to 2004. Three men build companies on the same refusal. A fastener distributor in southeastern Minnesota takes a salary his own board reports has not risen in twelve years, and paints no name on any parking space in the lot.
THE SPLIT Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 52 min
Endicott, Baldwin Park and Solomeo, 1914 to 2024. Three employers decide, a century and two countries apart, that the right wage is not the one the market will accept. A salesman turned general manager puts an American factory workforce on an hourly floor no law required and keeps them employed through a depression.
THE SPLIT Book 5
4 parts · 13 h 36 min
Seattle, El Cajon, Salt Lake City and Minneapolis, 1907 to 2024. A nineteen-year-old with a borrowed hundred dollars builds a delivery company and decides that the people who run it should own it, forty-seven years before Congress writes the instrument that would have let him.
THE SPLIT Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 43 min
Burlington, Milwaukie, Irvington and Fort Collins, 1978 to 2025.