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Work - A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots (Paperback)
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Work - A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots (Paperback)
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"This book is a tour de force." --Adam Grant, New York Times
bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of
humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James
Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and
dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It
mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired
to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to
work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a
far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James
Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on
Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our
deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from
anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics,
and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy,
meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our
ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work
than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of
work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand
years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by
the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our
migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another
and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of
time, have not been the same. Arguing that we are in the midst of a
similarly transformative point in history, Suzman shows how
automation might revolutionize our relationship with work and in
doing so usher in a more sustainable and equitable future for our
world and ourselves.
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