I can see this dynamic played-out in my workplace; middle-management carrying out the agenda of the few who have placed themselves at the top. The workers themselves are disposable; really to my mind, are treated as worthless.

A juggernaut that stands in the way of organizing the workers here is that each of the individual bosses and managers has their own loyal following of workers.

Management has a kind of social-cunning that doles out a sense of belonging (we are all friends here), and dispenses favours. People are actually devoted to a particular boss or manager, even though they and their fellow workers are being abused in so many ways.

Workers are squeezed out after long years of service, not retrained after they suffer repetitive strain injuries, and refused requests to move into different departments or different types of labour. These are just a few examples of the bad treatment they suffer.