The story of work : a new history of humankind / Jan Lucassen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lucassen, Jan, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work--History.

Work.

Labor--History.

Labor.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 524 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.

Summary:

We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs.0Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure.0From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today's gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Humans at work, 700,000

12,000 years ago

2. Farming and division of labour, 10000

5000 BCE

3. Emerging labour relations, 5000

500 BCE

4. Working for the market, 500 BCE

1500 CE

5. Globalization of labour relations, 1500

1800

6. Converging labour relations, 1800 to now

7. The changing significance of work, 1800 to now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-506) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780300256796

0300256795

OCLC:

1241245680