"The Culture of Soft Work" examines American writers' responses to motivational techniques through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts. It features an unique approach. It introduces management theory as a key to understanding contemporary cultural materials, including canonical postmodern novels, bestsellers, films, Broadway musicals, newspaper columns, comic strips, sociological blockbusters, and corporate publications. It has strong theoretical framework. It explores a range of theoretical issues, including gender, race, posthumanism and postmodernism in clear, accessible language and asserts the significance of human labour to debates about them.It presents a valuable history of gender and work. It offers a fine-grained history of American work culture, including various management 'experiments' that continue to determine the experience of workers. It also exposes the central role women have played in informing how work is understood and performed in the post-World War II era." The Culture of Soft Work" examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts.