The Machine Shop and the Hair Salon

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The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited is an eighteen chapter book published in 2012 by Basic Books and written by Richard Florida, of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and New York University. The author presents a revised and expanded version of his classic work, which pioneered the idea that our society is in the midst of a fundamental economic and cultural shift led by an emerging class of people, defined by their occupations as the Creative Class. He argues that human creativity has become the pivotal force at the heart of current societal change. Supporting his theory with substantial research and grounding his arguments in classic historical and economic thinking, Florida sheds new light on successful Creative Age companies and cities. Chapter 4, The Machine Shop and the Hair Salon (19 pages), begins the book's second section on the work of the Creative Class. The author discusses what creative workers value from their jobs, mainly flexibility, freedom, and intellectual challenges. They are not motivated by money alone, but by passion. Based on data from an Information Week survey, Florida examines the top-ranked indicators of job satisfaction: flexibility, peer recognition, location and community, and compensation. He reexamines these factors based on current data, finding that the basic value system has not changed.
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