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All I can say in response is that my former employer had a 230 year prior  history of not working in this way.  It used to have a complex hierarchical structure based partly on class and partly on meritocracy where people served their time, did exams, but were, above all "company men and women", generally serving for life.  

Of course there are many disadvantages to this sort of system as well, and change was inevitable and to be welcomed.  Many positive changes were made as well.  My former boss was the first person to rise up from the shop floor - having joined at the age of 14 - to become Managing Director. However I think it does the complexity of corporate history a disservice to lump everything together and say everything was always the same.

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:23:23 AM EST
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I'm not saying all corporations behave this way all the time. I'm saying that there is a tendency and if the environment in which the company exists encourages that tendency then ...
by rootless2 on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 12:22:09 PM EST
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"Talk about centralisation! The credit system, which has its focus in the so-called national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers surrounding them, constitutes enormous centralisation, and gives to this class of parasites the fabulous power, not only to periodically despoil industrial capitalists, but also to interfere in actual production in a most dangerous manner -- and this gang knows nothing about production and has nothing to do with it."

Marx, Capital Vol. III Part V
Division of Profit into Interest and Profit of Enterprise. Interest-Bearing Capital.

by rootless2 on Fri Jun 26th, 2009 at 05:57:45 PM EST
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