Trainirg Capitalism's Foot Soldiers The Hidden Curriculum of Undergraduate Business Education Kenneth N. Ehrensal This chapteris about the education of "white collar" workers.I use this term very loosely to include professionals, technical specialists in and aroundcorporate headquarters, and mandgers-the foot soldiers of corporate power.I find this group particularlyinteresting because of the way in which they see themselves. In a society where rhe con- ventional wisdom states that we do not see ourselves in class terms, these workers,who make up about 15 percent of the labor force,do see themselves as a group separate from and with differenrinterests than blue-collar workers.In many ways,this group'sself-image mir- rors the traditional Marxist cosmology that the world was divided into the working class (or labor), the managerial class, and the capitalisr class. This division of the world is, of course, problematic in that it ignoresthe fact that managers, like labor, are employees of capital. This leads to the general question that typically interests me. Thar is, by what processes do white-collar workers come ro imagine their inter- ests as linked to the interests of capital, ratherthan the interests of the broader working-class ? This question is not irrelevanr to the study of the capitalist labor process. Clearly, in order to take on their role as organizational agenrs for capital,a change in their subjective perception of self is required. This chapter will argue that this changein self-perception is a key ingredient to the group of employees' consent to the divisionof labor and the capitalist labor process.