La corrosión del carácter

consecuencias personales del trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo

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La corrosión del carácter

consecuencias personales del trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo

1a ed
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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. The Corrosion of Character 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.

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Spanish
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172

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Cover of: La corrosión del carácter
La corrosión del carácter: consecuencias personales del trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo
2005, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales
in Spanish - 1a ed
Cover of: La corrosión del carácter
La corrosión del carácter: las consecuencias personales del trabajo en el nuevo capitalismo
April 2000, Anagrama
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Cover of: The corrosion of character
The corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism
1998, Norton
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
La Habana, Cuba
Translation Of
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Translated From
English

Classifications

Library of Congress
HD8072.5 S4618 2004

Contributors

Translator
Daniel Najmías

The Physical Object

Pagination
172 p. ;
Number of pages
172

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL20248737M
ISBN 10
959060806X
ISBN 13
9789590608063
OCLC/WorldCat
976517796

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