![]() And rather than giving workers greater freedom, the flexibility model allows another kind of power to be imposed from the top: from 1980 to 1995, between 13 million and 39 million workers became unemployed owing to downsizing. Character depends on stability for virtues such as loyalty, trust, commitment and mutual helpfulness to develop. Most important, the new adaptability in business militates against the formation of character. ![]() His argument is that the modern workplace-with its emphasis on short-term, episodic labor projects and flexibility-does not allow people to shape their experiences or build a coherent narrative of their lives. However, Sennett, professor of sociology at New York University and the London School of Economics, believes this improvement is illusory. ![]() The American company today ostensibly offers a more humane environment than in the era of ""Fordism,"" when work on the assembly line had a deadening, routine character. ![]()
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