| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
347 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. The jungle revisited -- The reform journalism of the muckrakers -- The miners: men without work -- West Coast waterfront: end of an era -- Labor's cultural degradation -- The myth of the powerful worker -- Less work -less leisure -- The myth of the happy worker -- Work as a public issue -- 2. Robinson Crusoe -the man alone -- Certain Jewish writers -- Italian cinema, American audience -- Three-penny opera -three-dollar seats -- The cult of personality in American letters -- The image in the mirror -- 3. Popular taste and The Caine mutiny -- Exurbia revisited -- Popular taste and the agonies of the young -- Popular music and the new men of skill -- Be happy, go liberal -- The dilemma of the educated woman -- Exercise and abstinence -- The pilot as precursor -- Work and the professions -- Why resign from the human race? |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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Working class -- United States.
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