He directed the labor section of the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia until 1948, when he published The New Men of Power, a study of American labor leaders.  
He directed the labor section of the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia until 1948, when he published The New Men of Power, a study of American labor leaders.  He followed this with a critical account of the "new middle class" of the postwar era that was "morally defenseless as individuals and politically impotent as a group," in 1951's White Power.  For 10 points, name this leftist sociologist whose best known work 1956 study of social control by the military, politicians and corporations, The Power Elite.
He directed the labor section of the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia until 1948, when he published The New Men of Power, a study of American labor leaders.  
Charles Wright Mills