Why work?
Subtitle: the perceptions of "a real job" and the rhetoric of work through the ages
By: Robin Patric Clair.
Contributors: Clair, Robin Patric.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781557534545
Subjects: Work -- Philosophy; Work -- History; Labor -- Philosophy; Management -- History; Rhetoric -- Social aspects
Other titles: Perceptions of "a real job"; Rhetoric of work through the ages
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ontology and history of work: The messy business of defining work; The philosophy and rhetoric of work; title: Philosophers, rhetoricians, and activists: Plato and Aristotle: a philosophy of labor; Confucius and St. Benedict; Adam Smith: the father of capitalism; Karl Marx: a challenge to capitalism; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. du Bois: out of slavery; Mother Jones and Emma Goldman: labor activists; Emile Durkheim: the division of labor; Max Weber: the father of sociology and theorist of bureaucracy; Frederick Winslow Taylor: the father of scientific management; Mary Parker Follett: ahead of her time; title: Why work?; title: Why work: concluding remarks; title: Why work: an epilogue.