The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism

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The corrosion of character : the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism

Title remainder

the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism

Statement of responsibility

Richard Sennett

Creator

• Sennett, Richard, 1943-
• Sennett, Richard, 1943-

Subject

• USA
• United States
• Labor -- United States
• Working class -- United States
• Work ethic -- United States
• USA

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.""--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

HD8072.5

LC item number

.S46 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• statistics