BACK IN THE DISTANT PAST

Back in the 60s, 70s, even into the 80s, they were still writing articles, and referring to old articles, Harvard Business Review,  with names like "One more time, how do you motivate employees", about middle class work.

American management mavericks solved that problem, they have come to think, by eliminating domestic workers, first blue, then blue and white collar ones, who needed or qualified, back then, for this kind of social psychology motivation.

Foreign lieutenants use a somewhat different regimen, involving if not different concepts, at least different carrots or sticks, for the foreign workers, in foreign shops.

I very seriously doubt whether these old HBR social psychology concepts are much in use over there.