The quitting economy

When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit

Aeon Magazine
Aug 8, 2017 · 12 min read
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By Ilana Gershon

In the early 1990s, career advice in the United States changed. A new social philosophy, neoliberalism, was transforming society, including the nature of employment, and career counsellors and…

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