The Culture of Soft Work
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-60823-8 (ISBN)
Heather J. Hicks is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Villanova University, USA.
Acknowledgments Introduction: 'Soft is Hard' Chapter One:'No Good To Anybody': Player Piano, General Electric, and the Consumption of Work Chapter Two: Soft Soap, Snow Jobs, and Apartment Keys: Human Relations Management in Mid-Century Literature and Film Chapter Three: Automating Feminism: Self-Actualization vs. the Post-Work Society in Joanna Russ's The Female Man Chapter Four: A Cyborg's Work is Never Done: Programming Robots, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercy's He, She and It Chapter Five: 'Sleeping Beauty': Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton's Rising Sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor Chapter Six:Hoodoo Economics: On Management Gurus and Magical Black Men in Postmodern American Culture Conclusion
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.1.2009 |
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Reihe/Serie | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
Zusatzinfo | XII, 267 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-230-60823-X / 023060823X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-230-60823-8 / 9780230608238 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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