Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Clark Davis Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0801862744
Описание
The story of the early decades of American big business, when white-collar jobs were new and their future uncertain. America's white-collar workers form the core of the nation's corporate economy and its expansive middle class. But just a century ago, white-collar jobs were new, and their future was anything but certain. In Company Men Clark Davis places the corporate office at the heart of American social and cultural history, examining how the nation's first generation of white-collar men created new understandings of masculinity, race, community, and success?all of which would dominate American experience for decades to come. Company Men is set in Los Angeles, the nation's "corporate frontier" of the early twentieth century. Davis shows how this California city?often considered on the fringe of American society for the very reason that it was new and growing so rapidly?displayed in sharp contours how America's corporate culture developed. The young men who...
