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Purpose and benefits

From the point of view of the age of uncertainty, the age of downsizing, re-engineering, and ‘discontinuous change’, the 1950s and 1960s can easily seem like a golden age. The careers enjoyed by corporate executives were built on solid foundations, workers had jobs for life, suburbia was heaven, and everything seemed set to go on and on and on. William Whyte showed the downside to this corporate utopia. Read his brilliant, witty, and often poignant analysis to get both the post-war past and the present in perspective.