Thus 'emancipation' becomes management's last trick, denying the difference between superior and subordinate and thus taking away the subordinate's power basis. Under the pretence of equalizing power, this simply reorganizes the power which the subordinates on the whole already possess.

DEFINE: Contrasts the nominal meaning of emancipation with its strategic function as a power-reorganizing managerial technique.

Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, loc. 800