One Day I'Ll Work For Myself: The Dream And Delusion That Conquered America,Used

One Day I'Ll Work For Myself: The Dream And Delusion That Conquered America,Used

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From sidehustlers to startups, freelancers to small business owners, Americans have a special affinity for people who make it on their own. But the dream has a dark side.One day Ill work for myself. Perhaps youve heard some version of that phrase from friends, colleagues, family membersperhaps youve said it yourself. If so, youre not alone. The spirit of entrepreneurship runs deep in American culture and history, in the films we watch and the books we read, in our political rhetoric, and in the music piping through our speakers.What makes the dream of selfemployment so alluring, so pervasive in todays world? Benjamin C. Waterhouse offers a provocative argument: the modern cult of the hustle is a direct consequence of economic failuresbad jobs, stagnant wages, and inequalitysince the 1970s. With original research, Waterhouse traces a new narrative history of business in America, populated with vivid charactersfrom the activists, academics, and workfromhome gurus who hailed business ownership as our economic salvation to the upstarts who took the plunge. We meet, among others, a consultant who quits his job and launches a wildly popular beer company, a department store saleswoman who founds a plussize bra business on the Internet, and an Indian immigrant in Texas who flees the corporate world to open a motel. Some flourish; some squeak by. Some fail.As Waterhouse shows, the goitalone movement that began in the 1970s laid the political and cultural groundwork for todays gig economy and its ethos: everyone should be their own boss. While some people find success in that world, countless others are left bouncing from gig to gigexploited, underpaid, or conned by getrichquick scams. And our politics doesnt know how to respond.Accessible, fastpaced, and eyeopening, One Day Ill Work for Myself offers a fresh, insightful cultural history of the U.S. economy from the perspective of the people within it, asking urgent questions about why were clinging to old strategies for progressand at what cost. 6 charts/illustrations

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