The Hidden Injuries of Work

Abstract

[...] the consistency question: Absent the guarantees of life-time employment and a steady-state career trajectory, workers have little incentive to be loyal to or trusting of their bosses, co-workers, and corporate employers, and through this experience, they retain little institutional knowledge of their places of work. Sennett wisely notes the comparative advantage wealthy, well-resourced individuals have in the fight to find a sense of place Ln the modern economy, but in my estimation, he sorely overestimates the old-world value of coming to "know about yourself in relation to the frustrations or anger you experienced in an anchored social reaUty outside yourself" (p. 74, author's emphasis) Say what?