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The Culture of Soft Work

Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2009
ISBN13: 9780230608238
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The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts.

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ISBN13:9780230608238
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Soft is Hard' Chapter One:'No Good To Anybody': Player Piano, General Electric, and the Consumption of Work Chapter Two: Soft Soap, Snow Jobs, and Apartment Keys: Human Relations Management in Mid-Century Literature and Film Chapter Three: Automating Feminism: Self-Actualization vs. the Post-Work Society in Joanna Russ's The Female Man Chapter Four: A Cyborg's Work is Never Done: Programming Robots, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercy's He, She and It Chapter Five: 'Sleeping Beauty': Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor Chapter Six:Hoodoo Economics: On Management Gurus and Magical Black Men in Postmodern American Culture Conclusion

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