The 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 |