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This chapter presents a portrait of university sociologist C. Wright Mills. His book The New Men of Power is a study of trade unions and their leaders, the American political scene, and the prospects for a radicalized democracy in the years just after World War II. When Mills published the book in 1948, it identified a newly empowered set of strategic actors who led the nation's most important progressive institutions, “the only organizations capable of stopping the main drift towards war and slump.” But unlike his politically acute, agenda-setting volumes published during the 1950s, of which White Collar and The Power Elite are the best known, Mills' equally expansive probe into the meaning and future of U.S. trade unionism quickly fell into the shadows.
Title: C. Wright Mills
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This chapter presents a portrait of university sociologist C.
Wright Mills.
His book The New Men of Power is a study of trade unions and their leaders, the American political scene, and the prospects for a radicalized democracy in the years just after World War II.
When Mills published the book in 1948, it identified a newly empowered set of strategic actors who led the nation's most important progressive institutions, “the only organizations capable of stopping the main drift towards war and slump.
” But unlike his politically acute, agenda-setting volumes published during the 1950s, of which White Collar and The Power Elite are the best known, Mills' equally expansive probe into the meaning and future of U.
S.
trade unionism quickly fell into the shadows.
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