No-collar: The Hidden Cost Of The Humane Workplace - Couverture rigide

Ross, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465071449 ISBN 13 : 9780465071449

Editeur : Basic Books, 2002

Synopsis

No-Collar is the first book to place the much-feted New Economy workplace in the context of industrial history and the struggle to win a humane work environment. From Horatio Alger to the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Americans have extolled the virtues of hard work as a source of meaning and identity as well as livelihood. Drawing on his yearlong study of two Silicon Alley companies, as well as on interviews with a range of employees in other Internet industries, Andrew Ross offers a dramatic report on how the self-directed "no-collar" life stacks up against earlier work utopias.Though urban knowledge workers enjoyed unprecedented autonomy and bargaining power, and their bohemian artisan style evoked a pre-industrial craft ethos, the volatile economy exposed even the rank-and-file to 24/7 schedules, emotional churning, and the kinds of pressure typically borne only by senior managers. With his characteristic mix of laser-sharp analysis and deft storytelling, Ross asks: How humane can, or should, a workplace be? In documenting the quixotic life of these neo-bohemian workplaces, No-Collar records a unique moment in American history and reveals what the landscape of work will look like for decades to come.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Ross is Director of American Studies at New York University. He is the author of six books, including The Celebration Chronicles, No Sweat: Fashion Free Trade and the Rights of Garment Workers, and No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465071449
• ISBN 13: 9780465071449
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible