No-collar: The Hidden Cost of the Humane Workplace - Tapa dura

Ross, Andrew

 
9780465071449: No-collar: The Hidden Cost of the Humane Workplace
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ISBN 10: 0465071449 ISBN 13: 9780465071449
Editorial: Basic Books, 2002

Sinopsis

An academic iconoclast explores the new "no-collar" workplace--the most recent and radical step in our quest to create the perfect job--and finds important lessons about the future of work in an uncertain economy. 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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Andrew Ross is Director of American Studies at New York University. He is the author o f six books, including The Celebration Chronicles, No Sweat: Fashion Free Trade and the Rights of Ga rment Workers, and No Respect: Intellectuals and P opular Culture. He lives in New York City.

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Editorial
Basic Books
Año de publicación
2002
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ISBN 10 
0465071449
ISBN 13 
9780465071449
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Número de páginas
304
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