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The Organization Man

USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

By William H. Whyte, Jr.

FROM THE INTRODUCTION: “ThIs book is about the organization man. If the term is vague, it is because I can think of no other way to describe the people I am talking about. They are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for The Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self- perpetuating institutions. Only a few are top managers or ever will be….”

NY. Simon and Schuster. 1956. 457p. USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP