The Corrosion of Character is a short, anecdotal book, and while one might wish that it included a discussion of the social and psychological costs of the sheer increase of work time in the average worker's week, Sennett has created a pithy, disturbing picture of the cost of the corporate world's much-vaunted new efficiencies. Innovations like "flextime" and bureaucratic "de-layering" seem to promise more freedom to define one's career, but in fact they create jobs in which there's less freedom than ever to be had. has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new. Even in menial jobs, we extract much of our self-image from the idea of a "career"-a life narrative rendered intelligible by specific loyalties, which is to some degree self-invented but also in some respects predictable. In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, among the country's most distinguished thinkers. This, he argues, has tremendous negative consequences for workers' emotional and psychological well-being. Book Reviews : The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new economy. In the brave new world of the "flexible" corporation, Richard Sennett observes, workers at all levels are regarded as wholly disposable, and they have responded in kind, ceasing to think in terms of any long-term relationship with the organizations they work for. In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, among the countrys most distinguished thinkers.
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