ABSTRACT
Few words are used so frequently with so little seeming need to reflect on their meaning as power, and so it has been for all the ages of man. In association with kingship and glory it was included in the ultimate scriptural accolade to the Supreme Being; millions still offer it every day. Organization, the most important source of power in modern societies, has its foremost relationship with conditioned power. A reference to power is rarely neutral; there are few words that produce such admiring or, in frequent case, indignant response. When the modern industrial enterprise seeks support for its purposes from the state, conditioned power is again the instrument that it invokes or that is ultimately involved. As massive organization manifested in great industrial enterprise has become the basic fact of modern industrial life, the social conditioning on which its power extensively depends has not kept pace. Instead, it has remained basically unchanged from the age of classical capitalism.
