Capital’s will to power was most bluntly exemplified in Lemuel Boulware, the pugnacious vice president of General Electric who rapidly became notorious as the pinstriped Ajax of corporate management. “The employees got the idea that they were in the driver’s seat,” he told a management convention in 1946, reflecting on the GE strike. “This is the attitude, gentlemen, that must be reversed. This is the fantasy that must be eradicated.”
