[lbo-talk] Theory and practice

[Carrol Cox]

Shag wrote: managers are workers too. As Michael Lopp famously says, "The
first thing an engineer does when she's promoted to manager is forget." He
doesn't mean forget how to code, which the engineer does, in fact, do. She
forgets the organizational imperatives that had shaped engineering and must
learn the organizational imperatives that create the "management world"
(here, I steal from the sociological phrase, "art world".)

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This is of tremendous importance. The long downfall of the AFL-CIO began
with the failure of the UAW to support the attempt of GM foremen to
organize.

The firefighters of Normal Illinois back around 1978 went on strike (and
went to jail) in support of the principle that Captains belonged to the
Union! 

Carrol