This book details the battle one must fight to be an independent thinker, showing how an honest reassessment of what it means to be a professional in today's corporate society can be remarkably liberating. Poignant examples from the world of work reveal the workplace as a battleground for the very identity of the individual. Schmidt contends that professional work is inherently political - that the unstated duty of professionals is to maintain strict ideological discipline. Career dissatisfaction evolves as workers lose control over the political component of their creative work. After reading this insightful book, no one who works for a living will ever think the same way about their job. Jeff Schmidt lives in Washington, D.C., where he is an editor for Physics Today.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-8476-9364-1 (9780847693641)
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Professionals: timid professionals; ideological discipline; insiders, guest, and crashers; assignable curiosity; the social significance concealment game; the division of labour. Selection: opportunity; narrowing the political system; the primacy of attitude; examining the examination; gratuitous bias; "neutral" voices; subordination. Resistance: resisting indoctrination; how to survive professional training with your values intact; now or never.
