The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism / Richard Senne...
The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism / Richard Senne...
The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism / Richard Sennett.
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New York : Norton, c1998.
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N305.562/9
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English
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Physical content
176 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
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. Th...
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New York : Norton, c1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
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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, hierarchi...
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The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism / Richard Sennett.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1998.
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N305.562/9
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74VM0WAQazWd
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0393319873 (pbk.) :
9780393046786
0393046788
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305.562
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991001790729702626
