Whatever camaraderie may build up between employer and employed, whatever goodwill workers may display and however many years they may have devoted to a task, they must live with the knowledge and attendant anxiety that their status is not guaranteed – that it remains dependent on both their own performance and the economic well-being of their organizations; that they are hence a means to profit, and never, as they might unshakeably long for at an emotional level, ends in themselves.
