Beskrivelse
“Recognising that for most of human history people had a very different approach to work reminds us that work is someting altogether more interesting than our jobs…How then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies ? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time ? And why, in af time of materiale abundance, are we working more than ever before ?
“The first industrial revolution was coughed out of the soot-blackened chimneys of coal-fired stem engines. And the third took the form of the electronic micro-processor. Now we are ind the midst of a fourth industrial revolution, born of the union of a host of new digital, biological and physical technologies… ( Forord ).
INDHOLD: 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. – The bright lights. The malady of infinite aspiration. – Top talent. – The death of a salaryman. – The new desease. – Conclusion. – Notes. – Index.
