Life in the Crystal Palace

Life in the Crystal Palace
by Alan Harrington, copyright 1958

This is a review of the book found on Google:
Harrington saw that corporate employee as a new species, one that “may be distinguished from other American working people at least in one way, by an absence of nervousness.” This was the era when people could join a company and talk about having “a job for life”.

From my personal experience I can easily relate to much in the book.  I worked for  only one large manufacturing company all my life as a mechanical engineer.
I retired from that company after 43 years.

The author wrote about his experience working for 3 years at a very large unnamed corporation. He worked in the public relations department.  He called that company the Crystal Palace.  Most of what he wrote about the company was positive.  But a major part of the book describes negative experiences by others in other companies and work places.

Finished reading the book on May 6, 2017.