The history of work / Richard Donkin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Edition: [New] edDescription: xxi, 391 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780230238930 (pbk.) :
- 9780230238930 (pbk.)
- 331.09 DON
- HD4901
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Previous ed.: published as Blood, sweat and tears. New York: Texere, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Hands to the grindstone -- 2.Fettered lives -- 3.Job creation -- 4.The new religion of work -- 5.The most important pile of bricks in the world -- 6.Secrets of the dumb steeple -- 7.The silent monitor -- 8.The last puritan in a nation of amateurs -- 9.The yellow dog unleashed -- 10.The Philadelphia cathecism -- 11.Modern times -- 12.Western electric discovers motivation -- 13.Unnatural selection -- 14.Arbeit macht frei -- 15.Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn? -- 16.Managing the corporate state -- 17.The wanting animal-- 18.Sharp-suited philanthropists -- 19.The end of management -- 20.Melting the frozen assetts -- 21.The road to Panama -- 22.One life. Live it -- 23.Age of the search engine.
This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume.