The Rise of the Creative Class

And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life

Richard Florida

416 pages, parution le 02/02/2004

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Résumé

The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award Winner The Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, 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. Just as William Whyte's 1956 classic The Organization Man showed how the organizational ethos of that age permeated every aspect of life, Florida describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant. Millions of us are beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always have-with the result that our values and tastes, our personal relationships, our choices of where to live, and even our sense and use of time are changing. Leading the shift are the nearly 38 million Americans in many diverse fields who create for a living-the Creative Class. The Rise of the Creative Class chronicles the ongoing sea of change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change. The Creative Class now comprises more than thirty percent of the entire workforce. Their choices have already had a huge economic impact. In the future they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or wither.

L'auteur - Richard Florida

Richard Florida is H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University. A Visiting Scholar at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for Information Week, he lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Perseus Publishing
Auteur(s)	Richard Florida
Parution	02/02/2004
Nb. de pages	416
Format	14 x 20
Couverture	Broché
Poids	499g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780465024773
ISBN13	978-0-465-02477-3