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Just a further note supplementing this mention of Philip Kraft.  He published
an excellent study called _Programmers and Managers_ (I think the publisher
was Addison-Wesley) about 8 to 10 years ago.  It has a number of perspectives
on the issue of "technical core" that inaugurated this newsgroup -- he points
out the advantage to management of both the "rationalization" of jobs into
low status clerical-type positions and the somewhat looser "social control"
exercised in the Germanic engineering model -- pay a lot for someone fresh
out of a technical school (fawn on them, even; make them see themselves as
superior to anyone else -- it keeps them from noticing what's going on) and
then after a few years, plateau them in a position where they are essentially
stuck for 40 years until retirement.  The realization that they are being
exploited dawns so slowly that they never manage to think about opposing it
until retirement is near and fighting the "benefit provider" is effectively
impossible.

By all means, let's hear some more about Kraft and his work!
-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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