The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New CapitalismW. W. Norton & Company, 1998 - 176 Seiten A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working 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 whose life was structured by a union pay schedule and given meaning by his sacrifices for the future. In this new book-a #1 bestseller in Germany-Sennett explores the contemporary scene characterized by Enrico's son, Rico, whose life is more materially successful, yet whose work lacks long-term commitments or loyalties. Distinguished by Sennett's "combination of broad historical and literary learning and a reporter's willingness to walk into a store or factory [and] strike up a conversation" (New York Times Book Review), this book "challenges the reader to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism . . . is merely a fresh form of oppression" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Praise for The Corrosion of Character: "A benchmark for our time."—Daniel Bell "[A]n incredibly insightful book."—William Julius Wilson "[A] remarkable synthesis of acute empirical observation and serious moral reflection."—Richard Rorty "[Sennett] offers abundant fresh insights . . . illuminated by his concern with people's struggle to give meaning to their lives."—[Memphis] Commercial Appeal |
Inhalt
Drift | 15 |
Routine | 32 |
Flexible | 46 |
Illegible | 64 |
Risk | 76 |
The Work Ethic | 96 |
Failure | 114 |
The Dangerous Pronoun | 130 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Smith American Amos Tversky Anthony Giddens bakers become behavior boss bureaucratic career corporate Corrosion of Character Davos declared Diderot downsizing economists economy employees Enrico ethic experience fact failure fear firm flexible regime flexible specialization flextime Fordism global Greek Hesiod human Ibid individual industrial institutions James Champy Katherine Newman Laurie Graham Lippmann lives long-term machines Manuel Castells Max Weber modern capitalism moral moving narrative numbers one's oneself operation organization past Paul Krugman percent pin factory practice production programmers reengineering Richard Sennett Rico Rico's risk risk-taking River Winds Café Rose Rose's routine Saskia Sassen seems sense Sherry Turkle short-term skills social society sociologist sort structure superficial talk tasks teamwork things tion Trout understand University Press vodka wage Walter Lippmann Weber women workers workplace York