num_pages: 378
description: 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.
language: English
title: White Collar: The American Middle Classes
titlecomplete: White Collar: The American Middle Classes
genres: Sociology, 20th Century, American, History, Business, Society, Economics, Politics, Social Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 245
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Oxford University Press