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.
Autorentext
Heather J. Hicks is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Villanova University, USA.
Inhalt
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
Titel
The Culture of Soft Work
Untertitel
Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative
Autor
EAN
9780230617919
ISBN
978-0-230-61791-9
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
22.12.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.19 MB
Anzahl Seiten
267
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
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