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Company Men

White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

AvClark Davis,Fullerton) Davis, Clark (California State University

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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 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 left their rural homes for southern California a century ago not only helped build one of the world's great business centers, but also redefined middle-class values and morals.Of interest to students of business history, gender studies, and twentieth-century culture, this work focuses on the "company man" as a pivotal actor in the saga of modern American history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-12-07
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Industry and Society
Antal sidor320
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801862755

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"In a prewar era popularly associated with corruption ('Chinatown') and Hollywood, Los Angeles actively put together a white-collar establishment of team players, go-getters and strait-lacers. -- Tim Ferguson Wall Street Journal Business, labor, and gender historians will place Company Men with the best new business histories. -- Carole Srole Journal of American History A valuable contribution... [an] analysis of the corporate side of creating a white-collar work force [that] historians of business will find a valuable addition to the literature, while students of Los Angeles will welcome [as] a new study that adds significantly to the record of the city's past. Business History Review A lively, well-researched, and well-argued study of office work that also illuminates local history. -- Sharon Hartman Strom American Historical Review