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The Corrosion of Character

Paperback • 2000 • English

The Corrosion of Character

By Richard Sennett

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About the book

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers ...has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new economy. In his 1972 classic, The Hidden Injuries of Class (written with Jonathan Cobb), Sennett interviewed a man he called Enrico, a hardworking janitor...Show more

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ISBN

9780393319873

Publisher

WW Norton Co

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

The Corrosion of Character

Format

Paperback

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