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Karl Marx on the business education curriculum

"Following the Thatcherite purge of British sociology departments in the 1980s, a number of influential radical sociologists moved into management departments and business schools (Grey and Willmott 2005). Thatcher's class offensive had the humorous and unintentional consequence of putting Karl Marx on the business education curriculum, usually under the innocuous guise of 'organization behaviour'''. Peter Fleming and Matteo Mandarini (2011), "Towards a Workers' Society? New Perspectives on Work and Emancipation" in Alvesson, Mats; Bridgman, Todd and Willmott, Hugh (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 328-344.