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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Richard Sennett
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Paperback. A Business Week Best Book of the Year.. "A devastating and wholly necessary book."-Studs Terkel, author of Working Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
117
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393319873
SKU
V9780393319873
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12
About Richard Sennett
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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