The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... A devastating and wholly necessary book.—Studs Terkel, author of WorkingIn 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 whose life was structured by a uni…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-07852-7
- EAN: 9780393078527
- Produktnummer: 34246340
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 442 KB
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Richard Sennett's books include The Corrosion of Character, Flesh and Stone, and Respect. He was the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities and now teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics.
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