White Collar: The American Middle Classes - The Classic Sociological Study of the Office Worker and the Bureaucracies

C. Wright Mills' incisive analysis of the American white-collar worker is a classic of sociology, the author's ideas and terms making a lasting effect on sociological enquiry and popular consciousness.

Writing in 1950, most of Mills' study concerns the first half of the 20^th century; the trends underpinning a change in workplace culture, such as increasing urban populations and workers in the services industry. This new class of worker was invariably based in some form of office, wearing for...