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(2020) Work in the future, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Work is a difficult concept to define, but fundamentally it involves change and transformation. This essay gives an overview of how work has changed from the earliest hunter-gatherer period to modern industrial times. For much of human history, work was inextricable from the rest of life—not only as a means of survival but also as an element of family or social life and as a pleasurable activity. While work has always been intimately connected with technology, environmental challenges we face today call for us to undertake work that is less driven by a need for economic growth and unnecessary production.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21134-9_3
Full citation:
Donkin, R. (2020)., Patterns and types of work in the past: part 1, in R. Skidelsky & N. Craig (eds.), Work in the future, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 25-31.
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