1. "When you are being controlled, you are treated as an object rather than a subject.
Often people in power have an uncanny instinct for working the system against you. I know a millionaire who made his money in the clothes trade. The women working for him were paid poorly."
Often people in power have an uncanny instinct for working the system against you. I know a millionaire who made his money in the clothes trade. The women working for him were paid poorly."
2. "Every so often, he would sense the tension building up amongst them. One day he turned the radio on really loud. Then all the workers began to complain. He watched the agression building up until finally a group came to him and asked that the volume be lowered. He refused."
3. "They became more militant and threatened to go on strike. He insisted on keeping the volume loud. When they were almost out on the street, he lowered the volume. His strategy was to let them have the impression that they had the power. Then they returned to work, feeling..."
4. ..."they had won a victory over the boss, even though he had staged the conflict from the very beginning. This happened forty years ago." ... "Still the work situation continues to exploit people. Management is now more subtle in it's strategies of control and alienation."
5. Extract from chapter 4, Anam Cara by John O'Donohue.
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