*For most workers, there is no such thing as the long term. As sociologist
Richard Sennett put it in his book The Corrosion of Character: The Personal
Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, the post-Fordist worker "lives
in a world marked . by short-term flexibility and flux . Corporations break
up or join together, jobs appear and disappear, as events lacking
connection." (30) Throughout history, humans have learned to come to terms
with the traumatic upheavals caused by war or natural disasters, but
"[w]hat's peculiar about uncertainty today," Sennett points out, "is that it
exists without any looming historical disaster; instead it is woven into the
everyday practices of a vigorous capitalism."*
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