White Collar: The American Middle Classes
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...
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A previous edition is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.. Mills' (formerly sociology, Columbia U.) essential study is reprinted here with a new afterword by Russell Jacoby (history, UCLA). The story of the rise of the middle class, its lifestyle, ideology, transfer of skills, and class issues remain just as pertinent today as when Oxford published the first edition in 1951. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
Introduction1Old Middle Classes1The World of the Small Entrepreneur31The Old Middle Classes32Property, Freedom and Security73The Self-Balancing Society92The Transformation of Property131The Rural Debacle152Business Dynamics203The Lumpen-Bourgeoisie283The Rhetoric of Competition341The Competitive Way of Life352The Independent Farmer403The Small Business Front444Political Persistence542White Collar Worlds4The New Middle Class: I631Occupational Change632Industrial Mechanics653White-Collar Pyramids705The Managerial Demiurge771The Bureaucracies782From the Top to the Bottom813The Case of the Foreman874The New Entrepreneur915The Power of the Managers1006Three Trends1066Old Professions and New Skills1121The Professions and Bureaucracy1132The Medical World1153Lawyers1214The Professors1295Business and the Professions1367Brains, Inc1421Four Phases1442The Bureaucratic Context1493The Ideological Demand1534The Rise of the Technician1568The Great Salesroom1611Types of Salesman1612The Biggest Bazaar in the World1663Buyers and Floorwalkers1694The Salesgirls1725The Centralization of Salesmanship1786The Personality Market1829The Enormous File1891The Old Office1902Forces and Developments1923The White-Collar Girl1984The New Office2045The White-Collar Hierarchy2093Styles of Life10Work2151Meanings of Work2152The Ideal of Craftsmanship2203The Conditions of Modern Work2244Frames of Acceptance2295The Morale of the Cheerful Robots2336The Big Slipt23511The Status Panic2391White-Collar Prestige2402The Smaller City2503The Metropolis2514The Status Panic25412Success2591Patterns and Ideologies2592The Educational Elevator2653Origins and Mobilities2724Hard Times2785The Tarnished Image2824Ways of Power13The New Middle Class: II2891Theories and Difficulties2902Mentalities2943Organizations29814White-Collar Unionism3011The Extent Organized3022Acceptance and Rejection3043Individual Involvement3084The Shape of Unionism3145Unions and Politics32015The Politics of the Rearguard3241Models of Consciousness3242Political Indifference3273The Mass Media3324The Social Structure3405U.S. Politics3426The Rearguarders350Acknowledgments and Sources355Afterword365Index381
