When white-collar people get jobs they sell not only their time and energy but their personalities as well. They sell by week or month their smiles and their kindly gestures and they must practise prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
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About C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills was a 20th-century American sociologist. Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books, such as The Power Elite, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, and The Sociological Imagination. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour