The Resource The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, Richard Sennett
The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, Richard Sennett
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- Summary
- 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."
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 176 p
- Contents
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- Drift: How personal character is attacked by the new capi alism
- Routine: An evil of the old capitalism
- Flexible: The restructuring of time
- Illegible: Why modern forms of labor are difficult to understand
- Risk: Why risk-taking has become disorienting and depressing
- The Work Ethic: How the work ethic has changed
- Failure: Coping with failure
- The Dangerous Pronoun: Community as a remedy for the ills of work
- Isbn
- 9780393046786
- Label
- The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism
- Title
- The corrosion of character
- Title remainder
- the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard Sennett
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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."
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sennett, Richard
- LC call number
- HD8072.5
- LC item number
- .S46 1998
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Working class
- Work ethic
- Labor
- Label
- The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, Richard Sennett
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Drift: How personal character is attacked by the new capi alism
- Routine: An evil of the old capitalism
- Flexible: The restructuring of time
- Illegible: Why modern forms of labor are difficult to understand
- Risk: Why risk-taking has become disorienting and depressing
- The Work Ethic: How the work ethic has changed
- Failure: Coping with failure
- The Dangerous Pronoun: Community as a remedy for the ills of work
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 176 p
- Isbn
- 9780393046786
- Lccn
- 98017106
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, Richard Sennett
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Drift: How personal character is attacked by the new capi alism
- Routine: An evil of the old capitalism
- Flexible: The restructuring of time
- Illegible: Why modern forms of labor are difficult to understand
- Risk: Why risk-taking has become disorienting and depressing
- The Work Ethic: How the work ethic has changed
- Failure: Coping with failure
- The Dangerous Pronoun: Community as a remedy for the ills of work
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 176 p
- Isbn
- 9780393046786
- Lccn
- 98017106
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
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