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Sennett, Richard The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Ca pitalism
W. W. Norton & Company January 2000 0-393-31987-3 / 9780393319873 Paperback Near Fine
The American company today ostensibly offers a more humane environment than in the era of "Fordism," when work on the assembly line had a deadening, r outine character. However, Sennett, professor of sociology at New York Univ ersity and the London School of Economics, believes this improvement is ill usory. His argument is that the modern workplaceAwith its emphasis on short -term, episodic labor; projects and flexibilityAdoes not allow people to sh ape their experiences or build a coherent narrative of their lives. Most im portant, the new adaptability in business militates against the formation o f character. Character depends on stability for virtues such as loyalty, tr ust, commitment and mutual helpfulness to develop. And rather than giving w orkers greater freedom, the flexibility model allows another kind of power to be imposed from the top: from 1980 to 1995, between 13 million and 39 mi llion workers became unemployed owing to downsizing. Even flextime contribu tes to the fragmentation and disorder, and teamwork only emphasizes "mutual responsiveness rather than personal validation." Sennett makes his case in well-crafted prose with references not just to luminaries such as Adam Smi th, Diderot, Nietzsche and Rousseau, but to the immediate experiences of bl ue-collar workers and folks in bakery shops and bars. He challenges the rea der to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism offers a better context for personal growth or is merely a fresh form of oppression.
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