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Sennet's Corrosion of Character
Title: Sennet's Corrosion of Character
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1855 | Pages: 7.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sennet's Corrosion of Character
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett proposes that the emergence of “flexible capitalism” is having increasingly negative effects on the ability for people to find cohesion and narrative in their lives. The change from a pyramid bureaucracy to a web-like network removes the scaffolding that provided structure to earlier workers lives. With more frequent job relocation, travel and even less predictability in the work itself, people are having difficulty feeling that what they do …showed first 75 words of 1855 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1855 total…rapid economic change that we are experiencing in America. But Sennett’s argument lacks substantial weight in the practical workings of modern labor. The title of the book gives away the cynicism inherent in Sennett’s argument, but he may have done better to consider the changes of character inherent in a changing labor structure more as growing pains than as an indication that the character of American workers is degraded by the system itself.
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