The rise of the creative class : and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life /
Publication details: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2004.Description: xxx, 434 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 0465024777
- 9780465024773
- 0465024769
- 9780465024766
- HD53 .F653 2004
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | HD 53 FLO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0007240 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-411) and index.
1. The transformation of everyday life -- Part One: The Creative Age. 2. The creative ethos. 3. The creative economy. 4. The creative class -- Part Two: Work. 5. The machine shop and the hair salon. 6. The horizontal labor market. 7. The no-collar workplace. 8. Managing creativity. 9. The time warp -- Part Three: Life and Leisure. 10. The experimental life. 11. The big morph (a rant) -- Part Four: Community. 12. The power of place. 13. The geography of creativity. 14. Technology, talent and tolerance. 15. From social capital to creative capital. 16. Building the creative community. 17. The creative class grows up.
Here, Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in our economy. He describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant.