Corresponding to the managing functions of the capitalist in the
past, there is now a complex of departments, each of which has taken over
in greatly expanded form a single duty which he exercised with very little
assistance in the past. Corresponding to each of these duties there
is not just a single manager, but an entire operating department which
imitates in its organization and its functioning the factory out of which
it grew. The particular management function is exercised not just
by a manager, nor even by a staff of managers, but by an organization
of workers under the control of managers, assistant managers, supervisors,
etc. Thus the relations of purchase and sale of labor power, and
hence of alienated labor, have become part of the management apparatus
itself. Management has become administration, which is a labor process
conducted for the purpose of control within the corporation, and conducted
moreover as a labor process exactly analogous to the process of production,
although it produces no product other than the operation and coordination
of the corporation. From this point on, to examine management means
also to examine this labor process, which contains the same antagonistic
relations as are contained in the process of production (185-186).