ABSTRACT
Modern life centers around organizations. Work, in particular, takes place in organizational contexts. Although in the past, the work ethic glorified the lone entrepreneur or independent businessman, today such individuals are almost an endangered species. For the past two centuries, the locus of work has shifted toward larger and larger organizations. The foreseeable future does not hold any return to the family store or the one-man workshop as the primary workplace. Organizations are likely to continue to dominate modern work life.
