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1、REVIEWESSAYClass,Collars,andtheContinuingRelevanceofC.WrightMillsNelsonLichtensteinWhiteCollar:TheAmericanMiddleClassesC.WrightMills.AfterwordbyRussellJacobyNewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1951;reprint,2002xx+394pp.,$17.95(paper)Theappearanceofafiftieth-anniversaryeditionofWhiteCollar:TheAmer

2、icanMid-ddleClassesremindsusthatthisclassicanalysisofmodernAmericansocietybearsrereading,bothwhenC.WrightMillsgetshissociologicalprognosticationsrightandwhenhissweepingconstructionsgoastray.Millsisthekindofexpansive,imaginativetheoristwhoseboldfailuresandfalsestartshavetheirowninstructivea

3、ndilluminat-ingcapacity,notunlikethatofanovelbyBalzacorDreiser.Butwhatismostamaz-ingaboutabookfirstconceivedsixtyyearsagoisthatMillsremainssuchaprovoca-tiveguidetosomuchthatremainsessentialtoanunderstandingofAmericanpoliticsandclassstructure:theeclipseoftheoldsmall-townmiddleclass,thesegmen

4、tationofthemanagerialhierarchy,thenatureofstatusandprestige,andthecommodificationoftheselfthathasbecomesopervasiveinaneconomywhereservicework,entertain-ment,andteachingloomsolarge.Indeed,Millsalwaystoldhisstudentsto“takeitbig,”toexplorethemostfundamentalfeaturesofaninequitable,historicallyc

5、ontin-gentsocialstructure,whichmayexplain,inournewtimeoftroubles,whytheentireMillsianoeuvreisonceagainathand,withallhismajorworksinprintandatleasttwoacademicbiographiesunderway.11.InadditiontoWhiteCollar,OxfordUniversityPresshasrepublishedThePowerElite(2000),withanafterwordbyAlanWolfe;andT

6、heSociologicalImagination(2000),withaforewordbyToddGitlin.SeealsoC.WrightMills,TheNewMenofPower:America’sLaborLeaders(Urbana:UniversityofIllinoisPress,2001),introductionbyNelsonLichtenstein;andKathrynMillswithPamelaMills,C.WrightMills:LettersandAutobiographicalWritings(Berkeley:Universityo

7、fCaliforniaPress,2000).JohnSummersattheUniversityofRochesterandDanielGearyattheUniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeleyarewritingnewbiographies.Labor:StudiesinWorking-ClassHistoryoftheAmericas,Volume1,Issue3Copyright©2004byLaborandWorking-ClassHistoryAssociation109110