White Collar (eBook)

The American Middle Classes

C. Wright Mills (Autor)

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2002
416 Seiten
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-976358-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In print for fifty years, White Collar by C. Wright Mills is considered a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America. This landmark volume demonstrates how the conditions and styles of middle class life--originating from elements of both the newer lower and upper classes--represent modern society as a whole. By examining white-collar life, Mills aimed to learn something about what was becoming more typically "e;American"e; than the once-famous Western frontier character. He painted a picture instead of a society that had evolved into a business-based milieu, viewing America instead as a great salesroom, an enormous file, and a new universe of management. Russell Jacoby, author of The End of Utopia and The Last Intellectuals, contributes a new Afterword to this edition, in which he reflects on the impact White Collar had at its original publication and considers what it means to our society today. "e;A book that persons of every level of the white collar pyramid should read and ponder. It will alert them to their condition for their better salvation."e;-Horace M. Kaellen, The New York Times (on the first edition)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2002
• Co-Autor: Russell Jacoby
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-19-976358-5 / 0199763585
• ISBN-13: 978-0-19-976358-0 / 9780199763580