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The history of work / Richard Donkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Edition: [New] edDescription: xxi, 391 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780230238930 (pbk.) :
  • 9780230238930 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.09 DON
LOC classification:
  • HD4901
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 331.09 DON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 217528

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.

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