UNLOCKED: /519/ Reading Club: White Collar & Post-Mass Culture ft. Dustin Guastella
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On the middle classes and cultural compression.
For the concluding episode of the 2024/25 Reading Club, we discuss C. Wright Mills' White Collar, plus some additional short texts on what mass culture is like today.
credit: Ryan Zickgraf, based on The Wilson Quarterly/Russell Lynes 1949
Does Mills' account of the “economic psychology” of the White Collar worker still ring true today?…
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