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The Corrosion of Character

Endnotes for Chapter One

1. Quoted in New York Times, Feb. 13, 1996, pp. D1, D6.

2. Corporations like Manpower grew 240 percent from 1985 to 1995. As I write, the Manpower firm, with 600,000 people on its payroll, compared with the 400,000 at General Motors and 350,000 at IBM, is now the country's largest employer.

3. James Champy, Re-engineering Management (New York: HarperBusiness, 1995) p. 119, pp. 39-40.

4. Walter Powell and Laurel Smith-Doerr, "Networds and Economic Life," in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, eds., The Handbook of Economic Sociology (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 381.

5. Ibid.

6. Mark Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology 78 (1973), 1360-80.

7. John Kotter, The New Rules (New York: Dutton, 1995) pp. 81, 159.

8. Anthony Sampson, Company Man (New York: Random House, 1995), pp. 226-27.

9. Quoted in Ray Pahl, After Success: Fin de Siècle Anxiety and Identity (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1995), pp. 163-64.

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