Below the middle class managers and professionals yet above the skilled blue-collar workers, sales and office workers occupied an intermediate position in urban America's social structure during the age of smokestacks. In "City of Clerks Jerome P. Bjelopera traces the shifting occupational structures and work choices that facilitated the mergence of a white-collar workforce. He describes the educational goals, workplace cultures, leisure activities, and living situations that melded disparate groups of young men and women into a new class of clerks and salespeople. Previously neglected by...
Below the middle class managers and professionals yet above the skilled blue-collar workers, sales and office workers occupied an intermediate positio...
