White CollarC. Wright Mills
White Collar
by C. Wright Mills · first published 2015
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…Some of the books he holds up as examples of intellectual (rather than academic) engagement are Jane Jacob's Death and Life of Great American Cities, William Whyte's Organization Man, C. Wright Mills' White Collar, Murray Bookchin's The Limits of the City, and Lewis Mumford's The City in History. I think most of these would be good candidates for "undead" status. A few years ago there was an interesting symposium…
on “The Books That Wouldn’t Die” ↗…overestimated our ability to write useful rules. In a sense our legal systems and national economies are large-scale structures for organizing human effort into something greater. In the 50s people thought white-collar bureaucracy was the crowning achievement of the 20th century (read about White Collar by C Wright Mills). Other than 'faster mail', it's not clear that any rule systems of the consumer internet make…
on “Augmenting Human Intellect (1962)” ↗