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White Collar: The American Middle Classes

Oxford University Press
 — 1951


White Collar contends that bureaucracies have overwhelmed the individual city workers, robbing them of all independent thought and turning them into near-robots, oppressed but cheerful. They get a salary, but become alienated from the world because of their inability to affect or change it.

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