White Collar

The American Middle Classes

Bibliographic Data

ID20015285
AuthorsC Wright Mills (corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages394
Publication date2002-09-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byWhite Collar: The American Middle Classes, Frank Thistlethwaite, 1954
Reviewed byWhite Collar: The American Middle Classes, Paul K Hatt, 1951
VenueWhite collar (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195157086.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388388191
Open LibraryOL3569010M
ISBN9780195157086
LanguageEN
Citations received629

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 “American” 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. “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)

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