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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674293606
ISBN-139780674293601
eBay Product ID (ePID)13069433072
Product Key Features
Number of Pages352 Pages
Publication NameMake Your Own Job : How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, United States / 20th Century, Social History, Economics / General
Publication Year2025
TypeTextbook
AuthorErik Baker
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2024-008860
ReviewsBaker shows how American business culture and psychology have formed a crucible for the weirdest excesses of exploitation in the modern economy., Explores the American embrace of entrepreneurialism and why, for all the popularity of the approach, it can feel so exhausting., Argues that the imperative to imbue work with personal significance is part of a long-standing national preoccupation with entrepreneurialism., A comprehensive and sharply written intellectual history, the book traces the origins of several reputedly twenty-first-century maladies to an earlier age., This book will be of interest to anyone interested in business culture and social trends...With solid authority, Baker examines the entrepreneurial idea and how it has shaped the nature of the work we do., Baker brilliantly succeeds in chronicling how the entrepreneurial work ethic has influenced many aspects of American life., Baker's lucid treatment of our predicament rightly concludes that there will be no map provided to us--but when we need something to follow, there is, at least, a kind of north star., A brilliant exploration of the ideas and people shaping the American culture of work, from Henry Ford to Mark Zuckerberg. Sweeping, trenchant, and eye-opening.
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240624
Dewey Decimal338/.040973
SynopsisMake Your Own Job charts the transformation of the American work ethic in the twentieth century. It is no longer enough to be reliable; now, workers must lead with creative vision. Erik Baker argues that the entrepreneurial ethic has been a Band-Aid for a society in which ever-mounting precarity discredits the old ethics of effort and persistence., A sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers. How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change--not just to do their jobs reliably but to create new opportunities for themselves and for others. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven't seen commensurate rewards. Make Your Own Job explains how this entrepreneurial work ethic took hold, from its origins in late nineteenth-century success literature to the gig economy of today, sweeping in strange bedfellows: Marcus Garvey and Henry Ford, Avon ladies and New Age hippies. Business schools and consultants exhorted managers to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit in their subordinates, while an industry of self-help authors synthesized new ideas from psychology into a vision of work as "self-realization." Policy experts embraced the new ethic as a remedy for urban and Third World poverty. Every social group and political tendency, it seems, has had its own exemplary entrepreneurs. Historian Erik Baker argues that the entrepreneurial work ethic has given meaning to work in a world where employment is ever more precarious--and in doing so, has helped legitimize a society of mounting economic insecurity and inequality. From the advent of corporate capitalism in the Gilded Age to the economic stagnation of recent decades, Americans have become accustomed to the reality that today's job may be gone tomorrow. Where work is hard to find and older nostrums about diligent effort fall flat, the advice to "make your own job" keeps hope alive.
LC Classification NumberHD4905.3.U6B36 2025
