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• Author/Creator:Hong, Renyi, 1984- author.
  
• Title:Passionate work : endurance after the good life / Renyi Hong.
  
• ISBN:1478022833
  9781478022831
  9781478015598
  1478015594
  9781478018223
  1478018224
  
• Publication:Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Notes:In English.
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• Summary:"In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being 'passionate about your work' as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our experiences of work. Tracking the rise of passion in nineteenth-century management to trends like gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong demonstrates how passion can emerge in instances that would not typically be understood as passionate. Gamification numbs crippling boredom by keeping call center workers in an unthinking, suspensive state, pursuing even the most banal tasks in hope of career advancement. Coworking spaces marketed toward freelancers combat loneliness and disconnection at the precise moment when middle-class sureties are profoundly threatened. Ultimately, Hong argues, the ideal of passionate work sustains a condition of cruel optimism, where passion is offered as the solution for the injustices of contemporary capitalism"--
  
• Variant and related titles:e-Duke books scholarly collection 2022. OCLC KB.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Hong, Renyi, 1984- Passionate work. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Passionate work and the good life -- From happiness to passion -- Jobless, undamaged, resilient -- The compassionate imagination -- Urban preserves -- Passion in the last instance.
  
• Subjects:Job satisfaction--Social aspects.
  Quality of work life.
  Social networks.
  Self-employed.
  Gamification
  Job satisfaction
  Quality of work life
  Self-employed
  Social networks
  
• Subjects (Medical): Job Satisfaction
  Social Support