| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) |
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8vo. |
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Social theory.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Old middle classes. 1. The world of the small entrepreneur -- 2. The transformation of property -- 3. The rhetoric of competition -- 2. White collar worlds. 4. The new middle class : I -- 5. The managerial demiurge -- 6. Old professions and new skills -- 7. Brains, Inc. -- 8. The great salesroom -- 9. The enormous file -- 3. Styles of life. 10. Work -- 11. The status panic -- 12. Success -- 4. Ways of power. 13. The new middle class : II -- 14. White-collar unionism -- 15. The politics of the rearguard -- Acknowledgments and sources -- Index |
| Summary |
This book 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, the author 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 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgements and sources" (p. 355-363) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Middle class -- United States.
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White collar workers -- United States.
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Middle class
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White collar workers
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Mittelstand
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
51005298 |
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