The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
Description: Alain De Botton explores the world of offices and factories, convention halls, outdoor installations and transportation routes. He spends time in and around some less familiar work environments and discloses both the sheer strangeness and beauty of the places where people spend their working lives. Along the way, De Botton uncovers some of the most compelling questions that we rarely make time to consider: Why do we do it?
Table of contents: label: I.
title: Cargo Ship Spotting
pagenum: 11; label: II.
title: Logistics
pagenum: 33; label: III.
title: Biscuit Manufacture
pagenum: 69; label: IV.
title: Career Counseling
pagenum: 105; label: V.
title: Rocket Science
pagenum: 131; label: VI.
title: Painting
pagenum: 171; label: VII.
title: Transmission Engineering
pagenum: 193; label: VIII.
title: Accountancy
pagenum: 225; label: IX.
title: Entrepreneurship
pagenum: 269; label: X.
title: Aviation
pagenum: 291