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Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
By Erik Baker
Hardcover
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By Erik Baker
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A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
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 and for others. Our cult...
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 and for others. Our cult...