Why Work? : The Perceptions of "a Real Job" and the Rhetoric of Work Through the Ages
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1557534543
ISBN-13
9781557534545
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Imprint
Purdue University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2008
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
366 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 23.40 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Sociology: work & labourSociology: work and labour
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Explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, ""A Real Job"". Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past?
Why Work explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression,
A Real Job.This volume examinesworkin the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Mary Parker Follett to answer the question,Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past?A final chapter re-examines the core issue in light of the vary concept ofworkand ask one more timewhy work?This work is a result of an Honors seminar at Purdue University.
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