The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
of Richard Sennett
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Drawing on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers in a high-tech bakery, a bar owner turned advertising executive and others, the author explores the disorientating effects of the new capitalism in America. This book explores the contrast between the vanished world of rigid, hierachical 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 at the click of a finger.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176 pages
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication Date September 30th 1998
- First Publication 11/06/96
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393046786
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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