t recognized as such. The Middlesborough workers developed no consciousness that saw themselves as being exploited. The authority presented to them by the multi- million dollar enterprise of the American Association Ltd., of London was accepted as an overwhelming but legitimate power structure not to be questioned. In the case of authority, "B complies because he recognizes that A's command is reasonable in terms of his own values and because it has been arrived at through a legitimate and reasonable procedure"(Lukes,1974:18). The people complied because the Association was put forward as an enterprise which valued harmony, as they did, and would compensate them financially for the land. Manipulation, however, was the key in convincing the mountaineers of the Association's legitimacy. The people were payed far too little for what the land was worth. They were deprived of reaping future benefits because the Company neglected to inform them of its true value and their aim to gain millions in profits. Instead they focused only on the irrelevant matter of what insignificant sum of money would satisfy the people into giving up their land which was, at the time, of no real apparent value. With manipulation, "compliance is forthcoming in the absence of recognition on the complier's part either of the source or the exact nature of the demand upon him"(Lukes,1974:18). I highly doubt that the people would have so quietly handed over their land if they had realised that, at the same time, they were handing over their traditional way of life, and i...
