Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on October 24, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(4):816-818; doi:10.1093/es/khl060
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Richard Sennett. The Culture of the New Capitalism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 214 pp. ISBN 0-300-10782-X, $25.00 (paper).
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Richard Sennett is among the most prominent sociologists of work and labor in the English-speaking world, and he has written another in his recent series of books on how major changes in corporate culture are effecting the personal experience and social outlook of workers of various kinds. Given the importance of his focus on human impacts in a time when most economic discussion is about technology and money, it is hard to pass up this book. At the same time, it is equally hard to believe that one will learn anything new. We
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