The Working Life

The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

Joanne B. Ciulla

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Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
15 April 2001

Time management

EXPLORING AND EXPLODING OUR NOTIONS OF WORK

Joanne B. Ciulla, a noted scholar in Leadership and Ethics, examines why so many people today have let their jobs take over their lives. Technology was supposed to free us from work, but instead we work longer hours-often tethered to the office at home by cell phones and e-mail. People still look to work for self-fulfillment, community, and identity, but these things may be increasingly difficult to find in today's workplace. Gone is the social contract where employees and employers shared a sense of mutual loyalty, yet many of us still sacrifice personal time for jobs that we could lose at the drop of a stock price. Tracing the evolution of the meaning of work from Aesop to Dilbert, and critically examining the past 100 years of management practices, Ciulla asks questions that we often willfully ignore at our own peril.
*When you are on your deathbed, will you wish you had spent more time at

the office?
*Why do we define ourselves by our jobs rather than by other activities we do outside of work?
*What can employers and employees promise each other in today's business

environment?

Provocative and entertaining, The Working Life challenges us to think about the meaning of work and its impact on our lives.

By: Joanne B. Ciulla
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9780609807378
ISBN 10: 0609807374
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 April 2001
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JOANNE B. CIULLA holds the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. A former visiting scholar at Oxford and fellow at Harvard and the Wharton School, she has degrees from Temple University and the universities of Delaware and Maryland, and she has taught at Boston University and La Salle. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Reviews for The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

A wonderfully readable tour through the history of ideas about work, as human nature or human condition; as curse or blessing; as a calling by God or expression of the inner self. -- Michael W. Munley, Philadelphia Inquirer None of my guests on World of Ideas stimulated more response from viewers than Joanne Ciulla. --Bill Moyers, Public Affairs Television, Inc.