Books: Man with the Rotary Hoe

Man with the Rotary Hoe THE ORGANIZATION MAN (429 pp.) —William H. Whyfe Jr.—Simon & Schusfer ($5).

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground . . . Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

—Edwin Markham The Man With the Hoe'

The Industrial Revolution turned the peasantry into the proletariat, working the "dark Satanic mills," and Karl Marx predicted that eventually the middle class would be forced into the faceless...

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