The culture of soft work: labor, gender, and race in postmodern american narrative
Hicks, Heather J.
The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings ofpostmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts. INDICE: 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 Russb s The Female Man - Chapter Four: A Cyborgb s Work is Never Done: Programming Robots, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercyb s He, She and It - Chapter Five: 'Sleeping Beauty': Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichtonb s Rising Sunand Tom Clancyb s Debt of Honor - Chapter Six:Hoodoo Economics: On ManagementGurus and Magical Black Men in Postmodern American Culture - Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-230-60823-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 12/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés