White Collar
The American Middle Classes (Classic Reprint)
by C. Wright Mills
Recommended by Anne Helen Petersen
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sociology, Finance, and Politics.
A penetrating sociological and psychological study of the new middle class that comprise the backbone of modern American society....
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sociology, Finance, and Politics.
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Anne Helen Petersen
“This book was written in 1951 but it is somehow still one of the best articulations of the anxieties & obsessions of office/knowledge workers I?ve ever read. The section on white collar unionizing should be essential for all media union organizers | This book was written in 1951 but it is somehow still one of the best articulations of the anxieties & obsessions of office/knowledge workers I’ve ever read. The section on white collar unionizing should be essential for all media union organizers”
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