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Company Men

White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941
  • ISBN-13: 9780801862755
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Clark Davis
  • Price: AUD $60.99
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2001
  • Format: Paperback 320 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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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.


Contents:



Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Rise of Corporate Los Angeles

Defining Corporate Employment

Company Men

Creating an Esprit De Corps

Profit and Security

White-Collar Manhood

The Corporation as Community

The White-Collar Depression

Conclusion

Notes

Essay on Sources

Index

""A lively, well-researched, and well-argued study of office work that also illuminates local history.""

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