false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171217788m/90631.jpg 90631 3 In the brave new world of the "flexible" corporation, Richard Sennett observes, workers at all levels are regarded as wholly disposable, and they have responded in kind, ceasing to think in terms of any long-term relationship with the organizations they work for. This, he argues, has tremendous negative consequences for workers' emotional and psychological well-being. Even in menial jobs, we extract much of our self-image from the idea of a "career"--a life narrative rendered intelligible by specific loyalties, which is to some degree self-invented but also in some respects predictable. Innovations like "flextime" and bureaucratic "de-layering" seem to promise more freedom to define one's career, but in fact they create jobs in which there's less freedom than ever to be had. <I>The Corrosion of Character</I> is a short, anecdotal book, and while one might wish that it included a discussion of the social and psychological costs of the sheer increase of work time in the average worker's week, Sennett has created a pithy, disturbing picture of the cost of the corporate world's much-vaunted new efficiencies. <I>--Richard Farr</I> 87469 1998 The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism total:43|5:8|4:18|3:8|2:5|1:4| 43 150 93 9 4 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 28 11:55:20 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 12:07:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jul 15 06:07:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 19:35:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Sep 18 06:54:29 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 28 23:41:59 -0800 2007
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