The culture of soft work

labor, gender, and race in postmodern American narrative

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
267

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Cover of: Culture of Soft Work
Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative
2015, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
Cover of: The culture of soft work
The culture of soft work: labor, gender, and race in postmodern American narrative
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Culture of Soft Work
Culture of Soft Work
2008, Palgrave Macmillan
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Soft is hard?
"No good to anybody": player piano, General Electric, and the consumption of work
Soft soap, snow jobs, and apartment keys: human relations management in mid-century literature and film
Automating feminism: self-actualization vs. the post-work society in Joanna Russ's The female man
A cyborg's work is never done: programming robots, workaholics, and feminists in Marge Piercy's He, she and it
"Sleeping beauty": corporate culture, race, and reality in Michael Crichton's Rising sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of honor
Hoodoo economics: on management gurus and magical Black men in postmodern American culture.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
American literature readings in the 21st century

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/355
Library of Congress
PS374.W64 H53 2009, PN843-PN846PN3311-PN

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16842576M
Internet Archive
culturesoftworkl00hick
ISBN 10
023060823X
LCCN
2008019900
OCLC/WorldCat
227191940
Goodreads
7148911

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