مندرجات | Introduction: "Soft is hard" -- "No good to anybody": Player piano, General Electric, and the consumption of work -- Soft soap, snow jobs, and apartment keys: human relations management in mid-century literature and film -- Automating feminism: self-actualization versus the post-work society in Joanna Russ's The female man -- A cyborg's work is never done: programming cyborgs, workaholics, and feminists in Marge Piercy's He, she, and it -- "Sleeping beauty": corporate culture, race, and reality in Michael Crichton's Rising sun and Tom Clancy's Debt of honor -- Hoodoo economics: on management gurus and magical Black men in postmodern American culture |