White Collar The American Middle Classes [Paperback]

In print for fifty years,White Collarby 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 ofThe End of UtopiaandThe Last Intellectuals, contributes a new Afterword to this edition, in which he reflects on the impactWhite Collarhad at its original publication and considers what it means to our society today.
A book that persons of every level of the white collar pyramid should read and ponder. It will alert them to their condition for their better salvation. -Horace M. Kaellen,The New York Times(on the first edition)

PART ONE: OLD MIDDLE CLASS
1. The World of the Small Entrepreneur
1. The Old Middle Classes
2. Property, Freedom and Security
3. The Self-Balancing Society
2. The Transformation of Property
1. The Rural Debacle
2. Business Dynamics
3. The Lumpen-Bourgeoisie
3. The Rhetoric of Competition
1. The Competitive Way of Life
2. The Independent Farmer
3. The Small Business Front
4. Political Persistence
PART TWO: WHITE COLLAR WORLDS
4. The New Middle Class: I
1. Occupational Change
2. Industrial Mechanics
3. White-Collar Pyramids
5. The Managerial Demiurge
1. The Bureaucracies
2. From the Top to the Bottom
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