Now a standard on the subject of the new middle class in twentieth-century America, this 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.
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"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."--Horace M. Kaellen, The New York Times (on the first edition)
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The late C. Wright Mills, former Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, was a leading critic of modern American civilization. His other books include The Sociological Imagination and The Power Elite (both OUP). Russell Jacoby is Professor of History at UCLA and a contributing writer to The Nation, The New York Times, and Harper's.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This review is from: White Collar: The American Middle Classes (Galaxy Books) (Paperback)
C. Wright Mills classic treastise on white collar jobs in middle class America is as concise today as it was 50 years ago. His incisive summations on capitalism are true to their word, the current actions by corporate America happened then and once again history repeats itself. A must read for Sociology and Business students as a cornerstone for the corportate world.
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The early history of the middle classes in America is a history of how the small entrepreneur, the free man of the old middle classes, came into his time of daylight, of how he fought against enemies he could see, and of the world he built. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managerial demiurge, next ruling class, political alertness, prestige claims, personality market, entrepreneurial pattern, big bazaar, status cycles, free enterprisers, old middle class, managerial cadre, enormous file Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, New York, Civil War, New Deal, Federal Government, Max Weber, Adam Smith, Chamber of Commerce, Edmund Wilson, Hans Speier, Henri De Man, Leo Lowenthal, Lionel Trilling, Oswald Hall, Willard Hurst, William Morris New!
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The early history of the middle classes in America is a history of how the small entrepreneur, the free man of the old middle classes, came into his time of daylight, of how he fought against enemies he could see, and of the world he built. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
managerial demiurge, next ruling class, political alertness, prestige claims, personality market, entrepreneurial pattern, big bazaar, status cycles, free enterprisers, old middle class, managerial cadre, enormous file Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, New York, Civil War, New Deal, Federal Government, Max Weber, Adam Smith, Chamber of Commerce, Edmund Wilson, Hans Speier, Henri De Man, Leo Lowenthal, Lionel Trilling, Oswald Hall, Willard Hurst, William Morris New!
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- The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Ideology and Utopia: Karl Mannheim: Collected English Writings Volume 1 (Routledge Classics in Sociology) by Karl Mannheim in Back Matter
- Angel Pavement (Phoenix Fiction) by J. B. Priestley in Front Matter
- The Crisis of the Middle Class by Lewis Corey in Back Matter
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- City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920 (Working Class in American History) by Jerome P. Bjelopera on 4 pages
- State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) by Nelson Lichtenstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Service Clubs in American Society: Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions by Jeffrey A. Charles on page 35, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941 (Studies in Industry and Society) by Clark Davis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Mary C. McComb in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Index
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