Title:
Work : a deep history, from the stone age to the age of robots / James Suzman.
ISBN:
9780525561750
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
©2020
Physical Description:
x, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
"First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Circus, part of the Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020."--Title page verso.
Contents:
The economic problem -- In the beginning -- To live is to work -- Idle hands and busy beaks -- Tools and skills -- Fire's other gifts -- The provident environment -- "The original affluent society" -- Ghosts in the forest -- Toiling in the fields -- Leaping off the edge -- Feasts and famines -- Time is money -- The first machines -- Creatures of the city -- The bright lights -- the malady of infinite aspiration -- Top talent -- The death of a salaryman -- The new disease.
Summary:
"A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
on1153481227
Availability:
South St. Paul - Kaposia~1
