The Oxford book of work
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The Oxford book of work
Oxford University Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Primal curse or sacred duty? Drudgery and toil or the only sure route to human happiness? What we do defines us, and work is the subject of endless fascination. This anthology explores the nature of work and our attitudes to it from God's first punishment to the present day. It draws upon the imaginative writing of novelists and poets and also on the works of theologians, economists, philosophers, social investigators, journalists, diarists, letter writers and autobiographers, all those who have analyzed, observed, and portrayed the experience of work As well as illustrating some of the occupations in which we earn our living, from physical labour to intellectual pursuits, from agriculture and industry to the City and the law courts, this book shows how the experience of work has changed over time, and how workers have responded to, and writers represented, that changing experience. It considers the meaning of work that is done under physical compulsion and out of economic necessity and the validity of housework, schoolwork, and other kinds of unrewarded labour. Rest, leisure, and idleness exist in opposition to work and the effects of redundancy and retirement are not overlooked.
Table of Contents
- Part I The nature of work: the primal curse
- compensations and reward. Part II Kinds of work: woman's work and child labour
- working the land and seas
- all manner of occupations
- head work. Part III The reform of work: dissatisfactions
- life after work.
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