The culture of soft work
Subtitle: labor, gender, and race in postmodern American narrative
By: Heather J. Hicks.
Series: American literature readings in the 21st century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Work in literature; Management in literature; Industrial relations in literature; Sex role in the work environment; Management -- Philosophy; Corporate culture -- United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Soft is hard?; title: "No good to anybody": player piano, General Electric, and the consumption of work; title: Soft soap, snow jobs, and apartment keys: human relations management in mid-century literature and film; title: Automating feminism: self-actualization vs. the post-work society in Joanna Russ's The female man; title: A cyborg's work is never done: programming robots, workaholics, and feminists in Marge Piercy's He, she and it; title: "Sleeping beauty": corporate culture, race, and reality in Michael Crichton's Rising sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of honor; title: Hoodoo economics: on management gurus and magical Black men in postmodern American culture.