The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism / Richard Sennett
- Bib ID:
- 509402
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sennett, Richard, 1943-
- Description:
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- New York : Norton, c1998
- 176 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0393046788
- 0393319873 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives in Westchester, New York, bakers in a high-tech Boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and many others, Sennett explores the disorienting effects of the new capitalism. He reveals the vivid and illuminating contrast between two worlds of work: the vanished world of rigid, hierarchical organizations, where what mattered was a sense of personal character, and the brave new world of corporate re-engineering, risk, flexibility, networking, and short-term teamwork, where what matters is being able to reinvent yourself on a dime. In this timely and essential essay, Sennett enables us to understand the social and political context for our contemporary confusions, and he suggests how we need to re-imagine both community and individual character in order to confront an economy based on the principle of "no long term."
- Full contents:
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- 1. Drift: How personal character is attacked by the new capitalism
- 2. Routine: An evil of the old capitalism
- 3. Flexible: The restructuring of time
- 4. Illegible: Why modern forms of labor are difficult to understand
- 5. Risk: Why risk-taking has become disorienting and depressing
- 6. The Work Ethic: How the work ethic has changed
- 7. Failure: Coping with failure
- 8. The Dangerous Pronoun: Community as a remedy for the ills of work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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