The factory-discipline of school days is fading. Keep the oppositional stance. Marxist ODC TD Focus is on the workplace as a key site of control and domination. Views society within a political superstructure. Limitation - Structural arguments tend to predominate.
Marxist arguments tend to demonize management.
Implications for TD - Management's focus on change and their inability to solve management problems is indicative of structural problems that define capitalist social relations of production. Collins does not give many solutions to how to go beyond these four. He certainly points out the need to look at differences in ontological and epistemological assumptions of the various TD approaches. The various TD approaches look at managing the stories, metaphors, systems, and networks among organizations. And it seems that TD does occur with in several political economies.