Richard Sennett's "Respect: The Formation of Character in an Age of Equality" is a provocative and timely examination of the forces that erode respect in modern society. 'Unlike food, respect costs nothing. Why, then, should it be in short supply?' Respect can be attained by gaining success, by deve[...]

Why do people work hard, and take pride in what they do? This book discusses about what happens when people try to do a good job. It asks us to think about the true meaning of skill in the 'skills society' and argues that pure competition is a poor way to achieve quality work. Sennett suggests, inst[...]

A distinguished MIT sociologist surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global version that is evident today to illustrate how the work ethic is changing, new beliefs about merit and talent are displacing old values of craftsmanship and achievement, and [...]

In this provocative book, Richard Sennett looks at the ways today's global, ever-mutable form of capitalism is affecting our lives. He analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions have all contributed to what he terms 'the spect[...]

From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem--a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture.[...]

Sennett] has ended up writing the best available contemporary defense of anarchism. . . . The issues he] raises are fundamental and profound. His book is utopian in the best sense it tries to define a radically different future and to show that it could be constructed from the materials at hand. Ke[...]

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . 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 o[...]

Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of displacement from the inside. Richard Sennett plunges into this vibrant, anxious world to recreate the experiences of Herzen and his contemporaries.[...]

I sin mest ambitiøse bog til dato udforsker en af vor tids store intellektuelle tænkere håndværkets fortid og nutid; hans pointe kommer frem, når han forbinder fysisk arbejde med etiske værdier.

Selvom ordet ´håndværk´ måske leder tankerne hen på en liv[...]

Uppföljaren till klassikern "När karaktären krackelerar".

Ett helt nytt sätt att se på arbete, talang och konsumtion har under det senaste decenniet slagit igenom på bred front. Det talas om flexiblitet och mobilitet, med exempel från en liten del av arbetslivet, där yrken inom h[...]