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The culture of the new capitalism

Author: Richard Sennett
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Series: Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life - how the work ethic is changing; how new beliefs about merit and talent displace old values of craftsmanship and achievement; how what Sennett calls  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Sennett
ISBN: 030010782X 9780300107821 0300119925 9780300119923
OCLC Number: 60516853
Notes: "This book was given as the Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, delivered by Richard Sennett at Yale University in 2004"--P. facing t.p. verso.
Description: 214 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Bureaucracy --
Talent and the specter of uselessness --
Consuming politics --
Social capitalism in our time.
Series Title: Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
Responsibility: Richard Sennett.
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A provocative and disturbing look at the ways new economic facts are shaping our personal and social values.  Read more...

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"Reflective, studded with sharp insights, moving with grace between big ideas and specific cases. This is vintage Sennett." Douglas W. Rae, author of City: Urbanism and Its End"

 
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