The History of Work [electronic resource] /
Donkin, R.author.
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 It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people.
Description based upon print version of record.
First published 2001 as Blood, sweat and tears
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Hands to the Grindstone; Chapter 2 Fettered Lives; Chapter 3 Job Creation; Chapter 4 The New Religion of Work; Chapter 5 The Most Important Pile of Bricks in the World; Chapter 6 Secrets of the Dumb Steeple; Chapter 7 The Silent Monitor; Chapter 8 The Last Puritan in a Nation of Amateurs; Chapter 9 The Yellow Dog Unleashed; Chapter 10 The Philadelphia Catechism; Chapter 11 Modern Times; Chapter 12 Western Electric Discovers Motivation; Chapter 13 Unnatural Selection; Chapter 14 Arbeit Macht Frei
Chapter 15 Whatever Happened to Homer Sarasohn?Chapter 16 Managing the Corporate State; Chapter 17 The Wanting Animal; Chapter 18 Sharp-suited Philanthropists; Chapter 19 The End of Management; Chapter 20 Melting the Frozen Assets; Chapter 21 The Road to Panama; Chapter 22 One Life. Live it.; Chapter 23 Age of the Search Engine; Postscript: New Century, New Ethic; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people.
Civilization—History.
Business.
Management science.
Historiography.
Economic history.
Office management.
Labor economics.
Cultural History.
Business and Management, general.
Historiography and Method.
Economic History.
Office Management.
Labor Economics.