Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

by Erik Baker

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674293606

ISBN13:9780674293601

Release Date:January 2025

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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