The Oppressed Middle: Politics of Middle Management: Scenes from Corporate Life

by Earl Shorris

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385145640
• ISBN13: 9780385145640
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Workers of the World Unite

This is the best book about the modern corporate mentality; it's so accurate it's sometimes painful. Shorris mixes in hardheaded commentary about business with lengthy discussions of political philosopophy. His thesis is that the modern corporation has a good deal in common with totalitarian systems of government. While the modern business leaders and their cadres of managers and psychologists are much better intentioned and more genteel than political dictators, their impact on employees can be similarly soul-crushing. Shorris illustrates the effect of business policies with a series of fictional vignettes which will ring painfully true to anybody who has worked for a large organization. Any corporate employee who wants to get beyond dilbert-type easy sarcasm and understand what is really happening to his life should read this book.