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Beyond the Bottom Line: The Search for Dignity at Work.(Review)

The American Prospect

| September 10, 2001 | SKOLNICK, ARLENE | COPYRIGHT 2001 The American Prospect, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Beyond the Bottom Line: The Search for Dignity at Work By Paula Rayman. St. Martin's Press, 288 pages, $26.95

NORSK HYDRO IS THE world's largest salmon-farming company as well as the second-largest producer of oil from the Norwegian North Sea. It employs 39,000 people in 70 countries. In her new book Beyond the Bottom Line, sociologist Paula Rayman presents Hydro as a model firm that promotes its own productivity while enabling its employees to live balanced lives. The workday is seven hours; employees who are at their desks longer than that are considered inefficient, not heroic. Schedules are flexible, so both men and women can take care of things at home and ...

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