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C. Wright Mills, White Collar: The American Middle Classes (Oxford University Press, 1951; 1983) In what has since become a classic study of the new middle class of mid-twentieth-century America, Mills discussed how the values, tastes and conditions of white collar workers — teachers, managers, secretaries, insurance agents, sales clerks, lawyers — originate from elements of both the lower and upper classes and represent modern society as a whole. The New York Times review accused Mills of writing an excessively negative book that "conveys a feeling of hopeless disillusion. Yet there are also grounds for hope through disillusion. That Mills does not consider them even in order to refute them makes him an authentic voice of the futility he portrays." The New Republic said the book "offers an absorbing though somewhat bitter picture of the new white-collar middle-class personality." MORE: Working Minds research page "C. Wright Mills, Free Radical" by Todd Gitlin Amazon |
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