Screen LibraryThe culture of soft work：labor, gender, and race in postmodern American narrative
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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American literature readings in the 21st century |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 267 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
023060823X (alk. paper) 9780230608238 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/H631 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index. 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 versus the post-work society in Joanna Russ's The female man -- A cyborg's work is never done: programming cyborgs, 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 |