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The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Hardcover • 1998 • English • 1. edition

The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

By Richard Sennett

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About the book

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, netw...Show more

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ISBN

9780393046786

Publisher

Norton

Published year

1998

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Format

Hardcover

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