There are plenty of reasons to be unsympathetic to the class (or sub-class?) interests of middle-managers as a class, but they have become a convenient scapegoat for their superiors, much like blaming abusive overseers for the evils of slavery.
Vicki Smith wrote a book called "Managing in the Corporate Interest", that is essentially a case study of how top management at a major bank happily tossed career managers overboard (or subjected them to speedups) as a solution to the problems created, in part, by top managerial incompetence. One hysterical chapter covers a weekend "training" that attempts to brainwash branch managers on the virtues of more work and less security.
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
> MMFlint at aol.com wrote:
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> But you told the Fortune audience that the problem was GM's loss of market
> share - because of a braindead design staff, all of whom you would have
> fired along with lots of middle managers. If ever an audience deserved a
> little anticapitalist firebreathing, it was that gang of fatheads.
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