Work

A History of How We Spend Our Time

Work
James Suzman
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3 Sep 2020 UK
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9781526605016
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The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always the case: for 95% of our species' history, work held a radically different importance.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 a time of material abundance, are we working more than ever before?Leading anthropologist James Suzman charts a revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are.
Automation of all kinds looms on the horizon. Luckily, James Suzman is here with a revelatory new history that makes a persuasive case: that human industry can light a path forward, even in a future where we're put out of work by our own inventions -- Charles Duhigg
Chronicles how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalised communities on earth -- Yuval Noah Harari on 'Affluence without Abundance'
Elegant and absorbing ... Rich with ethnographic detail, stylish, perceptive, compassionate and, ultimately, tragic -- Financial Times on 'Affluence without Abundance'
James Suzman is an anthropologist specialising in the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa. A recipient of the Smuts Commonwealth Fellowship in African Studies at Cambridge University, he is now the director of Anthropos Ltd, a think tank that applies anthropological methods to solving contemporary social and economic problems. He has written for publications including the New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Independent, and has advised organisations including the Foreign Office, the World Bank and the European Commission. He lives in Cambridge.
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ISBN-13: 9781526605016
Published: 3 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Circus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 352

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