Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time - Softcover

Suzman, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526605015 ISBN 13: 9781526605016

Verlag: Bloomsbury Circus, 2020

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A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work, from the origins of life on Earth to our ever-more automated present

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Circus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1526605015
• ISBN 13: 9781526605016
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar