ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the legitimation of authority in economic enterprises as well as the ideologies of protest on the part of the emerging industrial work force. A study of the ideologies of management is not concerned with the origin of the capitalist spirit; it is concerned rather with the ideological weapons employed in the struggle for or against industrialization. The problems of labor management have come to the fore, wherever the organization of production involved the concentration of all work operations within the enterprise and depended to some extent upon an internalized ethic of work performance on the part of unskilled as well as of skilled workers. The bureaucratization of economic enterprises has been considered so far in terms of the ethic of work performance which such enterprises require, the absolute and proportionate increase of salaried employees, the career patterns of the “business elite,” and the organizational position of managers.
