The rise of the creative class : and how it's transforming work, leisure, community and everyday life / Richard Florida.
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TextPublication details: New York : BasicBooks, 2004.Edition: [New ed.]Description: xxx, 434 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780465024773 (pbk.) :
- Work ethic -- United States
- Technology and civilization
- Leisure -- United States
- Human capital
- Creative ability -- Social aspects
- Creative ability -- Economic aspects
- Creative ability in technology
- Social classes -- United States
- Creativity -- Social aspects -- United States
- Creativity -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States
- Society
- Sociology: work & labour
- Social classes
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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Previous ed.: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Here, 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. He describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant.
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