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Drawing on interviews with dismissed ibm executives in westchester, new york, bakers in a hightech boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and many others, sennett explores the disorienting effects of the new capitalism. As the 1990s have progressed, increasing attention has been given to the unprecedented changes that have transformed the nations social landscape over the past three decades and that hold profound implications for twentyfirstcentury america. In place of stable routine and predictable career paths, employees are now expected to be fluid in their jobs, and open to change. Richard sennett born 1943 professor of sociology at the london school of economics and new york university specialized in research on urban studies, labour, and the sociology of culture. After introducing the central idea of sennetts book chapter 2, i will proceed to a critical.
The corrosion of character the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism by richard sennett. In the corrosion of character, sennett, a sociologist and wellknown social critic, lays out a far different and far darker vision of the new economy. Sennett looks at the working conditions in the new flexible economy, and he sees a lot of problems. Download pdf the corrosion of character free online. Request pdf on jan 1, 2000, richard sennett and others published the corrosion of character. Corrosion of character the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism by richard sennett pub 1998 by ww.
Richard sennett shows how paris, barcelona and new york city assumed their modern forms. Building and dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual richard sennett. In 1933, le corbusier, siegfried giedion, and others wrote a charter of. Its subtitle is the rituals, pleasures and politics. Drift recently i met someone in an airport whom i hadnt seen for fifteen years. The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, his.
In the corrosion of character, richard sennett proposes that the emergence of flexible capitalism is having increasingly negative effects on the ability for people to find cohesion and narrative in their lives. A business week best book of the year a devastating and wholly necessary book. The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism drawing on interviews with dismissed ibm executives in westchester, new york, bakers in a hightech boston bakery, a barmaid turned advertising executive, and many others, sennett explores the disorienting effects of the new capitalism. The corrosion of character the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism 1 1. However, the last chapter of the corrosion of character offers some hope. Richard sennett s books include the corrosion of character, flesh and stone, and respect. The aim of this paper is to provide a critical reading of richard sennetts book the corrosion of. In the corrosion of character, richard sennett, among the countrys most distinguished thinkers. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the. The castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics this book was given as the castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics, delivered by richard sennett at yale university in 2004 t. The first of these studies, the corrosion of character, 1998 is an ethnographic account of how middlelevel employees make sense of the new economy. The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, new york. The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism, richard sennett, new york.
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