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White collar : the American middle classes.

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This book 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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright), 1916-1962
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1951.
Series:Social theory.
Subjects:
Middle class > United States.
White collar workers > United States.
Classes moyennes > États-Unis.
Cols blancs > États-Unis.
Middle class
White collar workers
United States
Mittelstand
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Old middle classes. 1. The world of the small entrepreneur
  • 2. The transformation of property
  • 3. The rhetoric of competition
  • 2. White collar worlds. 4. The new middle class : I
  • 5. The managerial demiurge
  • 6. Old professions and new skills
  • 7. Brains, Inc.
  • 8. The great salesroom
  • 9. The enormous file
  • 3. Styles of life. 10. Work
  • 11. The status panic
  • 12. Success
  • 4. Ways of power. 13. The new middle class : II
  • 14. White-collar unionism
  • 15. The politics of the rearguard
  • Acknowledgments and sources
  • Index.