Word: various
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MODERN BUREAUCRACIES, like modern factories, require workers who can be counted on to behave in certain ways. The bureaucrat must respect authority, be compulsively punctual, and conform easily to various standards of dress, speech and behavior. The bureaucrat's subservience to his superiors must be combined with an intense competitiveness in his relations with his peers. And most importantly, the bureaucrat must be motivated primarily by his desire for a reward (money, status, prestige) which is external to the work process itself. Like the industrial worker, the bureaucrat is useless to his masters unless he is economically "rational". This means...
This is obviously a very important problem, and one that is not yet near to being resolved. But there do seem to be some grounds for expecting that alienation is not a necessary feature of all industrial society. The various aspects of alienation all reflect the central fact that a modern industrial worker or bureaucrat performs his work for someone else's benefit. The work situation does not present him with a goal that he personally values. If a worker controlled his own equipment, if he knew that he was to receive the full value of his work...
...bust, Bethell said, "President Pusey, other administrators, even members of the Corporation should have appeared on television to initiate a dialogue. Once established, the dialogue should have been kept up unremittingly through various media...
...weeks ago, University Hall was filled with people who took on various combinations of these reasons. They were all of them serious people, those who were there for the power and those who were there for the aesthetic alike were serious. Romanticism is serious business...
...tied behind their backs. The bodies of at least two were marked with cigar burns. Two more had nylon ropes looped around their necks. One man had been shot five times in the mouth, another three times in the neck; a third had been riddled with 38 bullets of various calibers. In all, 102 bullet holes were found in the nine bodies. It was a foregone conclusion that the torture murders would never be solved...