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I'm curious. Were there many newspaper and magazine articles about life at IBM, GE, and other large corporations in the the 1950-1980 time frame? Did this tre

I'm curious. Were there many newspaper and magazine articles about life at IBM, GE, and other large corporations in the the 1950-1980 time frame? Did this trend of corporate culture commentary arise with periodicals like Byte, Dr. Dobb's, and Wired Magazine? Before?

UncleOxidant 4y ago
I don't remember any corporate culture stuff in hardcore tech magazines like Byte or Dr. Dobb's. Wired came later and it seems like it had corporate culture articles.
- gopher_space 4y ago
  People talked about corporate culture at IBM all the time, it was just in hushed tones.
  - UncleOxidant 4y ago
    True, you heard about corporate culture at IBM, I just don't recall reading articles about it in Byte or Dr. Dobb's.
loloquwowndueo 4y ago
Whole books even: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
- caprock 4y ago
  Oh, great point. That's a fantastic book.
- raybb 4y ago
  Available to read for free on Open Library :) https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98218W/The_soul_of_a_new_machine?edition=ia%3Asoulofnewmachine00kiddrich https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98218W/The_soul_of_a_new_mac...