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Work - A History of How We Spend Our Time (Paperback)
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Work - A History of How We Spend Our Time (Paperback)
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Loot Price R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work,
from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated
present, that challenges some of our deepest assumptions about who
we are. The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values,
determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our
time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95% of our species'
history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did
work become the central organisational principle of our societies?
How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on
equality and our sense of time? And why, in a time of material
abundance, are we working more than ever before? 'For too long, our
notions of work have been dominated by economists obsessed with
scarcity and productivity. As an anthropologist, James Suzman is
here to change that . . . This book is a tour de force' Adam Grant
'Groundbreaking . . . Exposes the productivity-at-all-costs mindset
to strike a blow at the myth of the economic problem. I learned
something new on every page' Grace Blakeley 'Brilliant . . . I
thought I had read enough by now to know what work is and why we so
often feel compelled to work - but I was wrong' Danny Dorling
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