Moises Naim Quotes

In 1951, The Columbia University Sociologist C. Wright Mills Published A Study Titled White Collar: The American Middle Classes.26 Like Ronald Coase, Mills Was Fascinated By The Rise Of Large Managerial Corporations. He Argued That These Firms, In Their Pursuit Of Scale And Efficiency, Had Created A Vast Tier Of Workers Who Carried Out Repetitive, Mechanistic Tasks That Stifled Their Imagination And, Ultimately, Their Ability To Fully Participate In Society. In Short, Mills Argued, The Typical Corporate Worker Was Alienated. For Many, That Alienation Was Captured In The Warning Printed On The Hollerith Punch Cards That, Thanks To IBM And Other Data Processing Firms, Became Ubiquitous Symbols And Agents Of Bureaucratized Life During The 1950s And 1960s: "Do Not Fold, Spindle, Or Mutilate.

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