[lbo-talk] Lee's Garage

Michael Hoover hooverm at scc-fl.edu
Mon Feb 20 19:45:41 PST 2006



>>> dhenwood at panix.com 02/18/06 11:45 AM >>>
Middle managers - not a small demographic in a rich country - have a divided consciousness and divided loyalties. Sometimes they think and feel like bosses, and sometimes like ill-treated underlings. And in both cases, they're right. Politically, they could go either way. It's not unlike the classic Marxist analysis of the petit bourgeoisie, which most dinosaurs have no problem understanding. Is it that middle management is an innovation of the last 75 years, which challenges those with a binary worker-boss model of the world to think freshly? Doug <<<<<>>>>>

there was this 19th century bearded cat who wrote that middle and intermediate strata obliterate lines of demarcation everywhere, unfortunately, the manuscript was unfinished...

and dig this, the same dude pointed to what looks suspiciously like 'managerial revolution', that separation of ownership and management thing, heavy stuff man, really heavy... mh



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