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99% perspiration : a new working history of the American way of life / Adam Chandler.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chandler, Adam, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Success--United States.
Success.
Success in business--United States.
Success in business.
Self-reliance--United States.
Self-reliance.
Income distribution--United States.
Income distribution.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
99 percent perspiration
Ninety nine % perspiration
Ninety nine percent perspiration
Place of Publication:
New York : Pantheon Books, [2025]
Contents:
Columbia : the birth of the American order
Exceptional and exceptionally vague : the dangers of a safe founding story
Landfall : the religion of work
Earn this : the impossible immigrant binary
Fording the river : big business and the frontier mirage
Right of way : the tall myth of the maverick
Bustle : work theater and the death of leisure
Hustle : the impossible act of keeping up
Worth : the wages of going it alone
Small normalcies : a new national story
Automatic for the people : the postworker future
Blindness: the crisis of American self-estrangement.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Chandler, Adam. 99% perspiration.
ISBN:
9780593700587
0593700589
Publisher Number:
40032628915
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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