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hopeful inspiring

3.5

I stayed up late to listen to this whole book. I had it on a faster speed, so a 4h20m became like 2h's instead.

This book is written for capitalist managers. So sometimes there'd be stuff said in contrast to another possibility & i wouldn't know what that other possibility would be.

So the basic premise of this book is that managers are supposed to do horizontal ethics by getting to know their employees & other sensitivity, etc.

I'm still shocked about firms somehow being supportive

The enforcement mechanism is that firms are intentionally trying to get employees of color not to leave.

This is a bit of a rosy picture since chapter 13 of "slavery's capitalism" explained how the systemic abuse is done in order to maintain rank/positionality boundaries, and so in order to also keep up with interchangeablity, we get systemic abuse. So the contexts are likely jobs without the interchangeably ..  IDK how sales jobs work.

Also one of the parts near the 25% mark had me looking up thia article because I related so hard when she talked about how exclusionary sports imagery is.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/sports-jargon-in-the-workplace/

I'm not sure how to rate this because this book reminds me of the mass line, but it's alao paternalist & there was a statement about racism that I can't tell the context for. I know Lenin liked Taylorism which was developed by enslavers in USA so there's something.

That being said, I liked how this book described how lunar new year became a holiday in USA. There were other antedotes like that which I liked this book for.

TLDR: this is saying do ask culture instead of guess culture, but because it's a business management book it wrongly assumes that the boss/worker relationship is cooperative instead of antagonistic/contradictory. it's kind of paternalistic. it's good though because it says that inclusion/assimilation infrastructure needs to already be set up before hiring if you want to retain diverse workers. (I guess "complaint" by sara ahmed called this the "diversity door")

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