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Purpose: to produce a groups of people who don't have to work, women are queen of this group

This reading of women: turned into servant$ of capitalist society, male-run business

Putting in evidence of the master^ ability - what is the function of women in the middle class - royal, ceremonious look

BUT! - don't let us be misled! They are servants of men, the men who organize the society about their lines

Capitalist desire to consume

+ a feminist touch to V's description

Two paradoxes

Built a

Women are celebrated, special statuę because they are mistresses; the/re servants (men own the Capital)

Analysis of the modern society! Have a look at the book! (

C. Wright Mills. "White Collar" (1951)

"By examining white-collar life, it is possible to learn something about what is becoming morę typically 'American'"

Blue collar - traditional manuał workers of hard labor; working with tools, hands, machinery

Mid-20s - this is where we're going - prophetic judgement

White collar - management, lower middle class; work less with hands, morę - brain, computer-based machinery

Move towards white collar - away from the 19^,h century work people, towards intelligence

White collar - wciąż używana nazwa, opisuje ewolucję społeczną -praca, która ma coraz mniej wspólnego z pracą klasycznie robotniczą, ona staje się (...) biurowo-robotnicza.

Typical American phenomenon - went through this in details

Idea of a new little man (society after WWII)

"The new little man seems to have s firm roots..."

Society of disoriented men - madness of hurry, people paralyzed with fear