The Culture of Soft Work

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 “No Good to Anybody”: Player Piano, General Electric, and the Consumption of Work

Chapter 3 Soft Soap, Snow Jobs, and Apartment Keys: Human Relations Management in Mid-Century Literature and Film

Chapter 4 Automating Feminism: Self-Actualization versus the Post-Work Society in Joanna Russ’s The Female Man

Chapter 5 A Cyborg’s Work Is Never Done: Programming Cyborgs, Workaholics, and Feminists in Marge Piercy’s He, She, and It

Chapter 6 “Sleeping Beauty”: Corporate Culture, Race, and Reality in Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun and Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor

Chapter 7 Hoodoo Economics: On Management Gurus and Magical Black Men in Postmodern American Culture

Chapter 8 Conclusion