Screen LibraryThe culture of soft work
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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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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American literature readings in the twenty-first century |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230617919 |
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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. "Nearly every page of this book taught me something new. In a series of nuanced readings, Hicks demonstrates the unexpected resonances of human relations management theory, and its progeny in the self-actualization and corporate culture movements, for a range of post-World War II books and films. Hicks joins Jameson, Harvey, and Haraway as an indispensable analyst of the relationship between postmodernism and contemporary capitalism." - Andrew Hoberek, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of The Twilight Of The Middle Class "Hicks has produced an exc |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 272 p. |
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9780230608238 9780230617919 : 0230617913 : |
| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Introduction: "Soft is Hard" * "No Good to Anybody": Player Piano, General Electric, and the Consumption of Work * Soft Soap, Snow Jobs, and Apartment Keys: Human Relations Management in Mid-Century Literature and Film * Automating Feminism: Self-Actualization vs. the Post-Work Society in Joanna Russ's The Female Man * A Cyborg's Work is Never Done: Programming Robots, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercy's He, She and It * "Sleeping Beauty": Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor * Hoodoo Economics: On Management Gurus and |