The Culture of the New Capitalism
What values and practices can hold people together as the institutions in which they live fragment?
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Looking backward has prompted me to look forward, to begin exploring the spirit of craftsmanship in mental as well as manual labor.
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
Americans of the middling sort I've interviewed in the past decade have tended to accept structural change with resignation,
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
dismantling institutions they could produce communities: face-to-face relations of trust and solidarity, relations constantly negotiated and renewed, a communal realm in which people became sensitive to one another's needs.