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Institutional Culture: Creative Labor and the Management of Knowledge Work- [electronic resource]
Institutional Culture: Creative Labor and the Management of Knowledge Work - [electronic r...
Institutional Culture: Creative Labor and the Management of Knowledge Work- [electronic resource]

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자료유형  
 학위논문파일 국외
최종처리일시  
20240214101215
ISBN  
9798380127790
DDC  
800
저자명  
Gunn, Charlie.
서명/저자  
Institutional Culture: Creative Labor and the Management of Knowledge Work - [electronic resource]
발행사항  
[S.l.]: : University of California, Irvine., 2023
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
형태사항  
1 online resource(154 p.)
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: McClanahan, Annie.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2023.
사용제한주기  
This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation explores the literary history of office work in the twentieth century. By looking specifically to institutional contexts of cultural production in this period, it tracks the historical relationship between creative workers and the emergence of what Barbara and John Ehrenreich have termed the "professional managerial class." Following a number of literary sociologists who have also attended to this relationship, I draw attention to the ways in which artistic commitments to aesthetic autonomy that emerged in the first half of the twentieth century are in many ways central to the construction of mid-century professional identity. However, this project aims particularly to highlight the historical and material limits of this autonomy in order to re-think long-standing assumptions about the intermediate class position of white-collar professionals. Each chapter thus takes up questions about the status of creative work as it runs up against basic material contradictions that necessarily structure the workplace and the labor market, even (or especially) within cultural institutions that seem to disavow the instrumentalization of mental labor for commercial ends. Chapter 1 looks to the editorial practices of several modernist little magazines in order to highlight the ways in which these publications' promotion of non-commercialized art and autonomy literary production remained vexed by the administrative demands of cultural production and the writerly labor market in ways that crucially shaped artists' belief in the value of unmediated and unmanaged aesthetic activity. Chapter 2 examines another version of that belief by turning to Kenneth Fearing's 1946 office novel The Big Clock, which, I argue, draws attention to an affinity between modernist aesthetic ideals and an emergent form of anti-bureaucratic management theory that similarly prized the values of individual autonomy and creativity. Chapter 3 examines how fantasies of un-instrumentalized and purposeless creative labor structure the plot of Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel Strangers on a Train. I argue that the novel dramatizes the material limits of those fantasies as they encounter abstract and totalizing historical forces that circumscribe art, including the novel itself. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the role that fantasies of autonomy play in professionals' conceptions of their broader role in society and political economy.
일반주제명  
Literature.
일반주제명  
History.
일반주제명  
American literature.
키워드  
Aesthetic autonomy
키워드  
Office work
키워드  
Professional managerial class
키워드  
Labor market
키워드  
Political economy
기타저자  
University of California, Irvine English
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-02A.
기본자료저록  
Dissertation Abstract International
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