Charles Wright Mills Quote on the Changing Nature of Work

„As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.“

Charles Wright MillsCharles Wright Mills describes societal change: less work with things, more with people and symbols.
PreviousNext

Charles Wright Mills was an American sociologist who examined modern societies and the role of intellectuals.

This quote describes the shift in labor in modern societies toward social and symbolic work.


Translation or original: 🇩🇪Click here

Quelle: Hier klicken

i

3.0 / 5

Quote image featuring Charles Wright Mills on the changing nature of work

Charles Wright Mills (1916–1962) was an American sociologist. His work examined postwar societies and the interaction of political, military, and economic elites. His best-known works include “The Power Elite,” “White Collar: The American Middle Classes,” and “The Sociological Imagination.”

Quote image featuring Charles Wright Mills on work, personality, and white-collar lifeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression." Charles Wright Mills
Read more
Quote about bullshit jobs and job satisfaction by Mattias DesmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"The phenomenon of bullshit jobs is perhaps the best illustration of this: In the second decade of the twenty-first century, half of the people were of the opinion that their job was meaningless. A 2013 Gallup World Poll found that only 13 percent of people worldwide were truly engaged in their job; 63 percent said they were not engaged." Mattias Desmet
Read more
Quote by Aldous Huxley about the power elite manipulating millions through factories, media, and financeCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
/
0 Comments
"This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few." Aldous Huxley
Read more
0 replies

Leave a Reply

Want to join the discussion?
Feel free to contribute!

Leave a Reply

Quote by Charles Wright Mills on the Clarity of Social Science TextsQuote by Charles Wright Mills on the clarity of social science textsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote image featuring Guy Consolmagno on religion, truth, and interpretationCopyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkGuy Consolmagno on Religion, Truth and Interpretation