16. The Way We Worked…
Fabricating Origins - Russell T. McCutcheon
James Dennis LoRusso [+ ]
Independent Scholar
James Dennis LoRusso currently serves as Vice President of the North American Association for the Study of Religion. He is a former Associate Research Scholar in the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, USA and is the author of Spirituality, Corporate Culture, and American Business: The Neoliberal Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capital (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Description
James Dennis LoRusso argues that the nostalgic views about “work” in Jerry Maguire are nothing new, but rather part of a much longer tradition of reimagining the meaning of “work” in American popular culture, evident particularly in Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman.