Hot take, and it's kinda tangential to what's going on for Ford right now, but:
If white collar middle management types spent a portion of their time working in at the pointy end of labour, their decisions about and their connection to blue collar workers would improve the way that a company works.
The amount times I've been working as a grunt in an organisation and mid-level or top-end management has decided to implement the most radically counterproductive or even downright destructive changes to the way that low-level workers have to go about their jobs, often to massive backlash, loss of profits and productivity etc., increased workload, workplace injuries etc... it's like it's a constant feature.
Obviously this isn't a lesson for capitalism so much as it's a necessary lesson that we need to learn for an effective circa- and post-revolutionary society.
(There's a whole thread in this line of thought somewhere about why vanguardism is so important, as is the mass line, but I'll probably end up writing some huge diatribe if I start on that path.)
Hot take, and it's kinda tangential to what's going on for Ford right now, but:
If white collar middle management types spent a portion of their time working in at the pointy end of labour, their decisions about and their connection to blue collar workers would improve the way that a company works.
The amount times I've been working as a grunt in an organisation and mid-level or top-end management has decided to implement the most radically counterproductive or even downright destructive changes to the way that low-level workers have to go about their jobs, often to massive backlash, loss of profits and productivity etc., increased workload, workplace injuries etc... it's like it's a constant feature.
Obviously this isn't a lesson for capitalism so much as it's a necessary lesson that we need to learn for an effective circa- and post-revolutionary society.
(There's a whole thread in this line of thought somewhere about why vanguardism is so important, as is the mass line, but I'll probably end up writing some huge diatribe if I start on that path.)