In 1956 William H. Whyte published The Organization Man. He set aside the workers and white-collar people who “only work for The Organization.” “The ones I am talking about,” he wrote, “belong to it as well.” They had chosen “to take the vows of organization life.”
Whyte had written about the same managers in Fortune in 1953. One company president told him: “We never plan to transfer, and we never make a man move. Of course, he kills his career if he doesn’t.”