History of work
Donkin, Richard
History of work - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2010. - xxi, 391 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hands to the grindstone -- Fettered lives -- Job creation -- The new religion of work -- The most important pile of bricks in the world -- Secrets of the dumb steeple -- The silent monitor -- The last puritan in a nation of amateurs -- The yellow dog unleashed -- The Philadelphia catechism -- Modern times -- Western Electric discovers motivation -- Unnatural selection -- Arbeit Macht Frei -- Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn? -- Managing the corporate state -- The wanting animal -- Sharp-suited philanthropists -- The end of management -- Melting the frozen assets -- The road to Panama -- One life. Live it -- Age of the search engine -- Postscript: new century, new ethic. by Warren Bennis -- Foreword / Acknowledgements -- Introduction --
"This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume that the Toronto 'Globe & Mail' calls "a page turner of a book". It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people"--
9780230238930
2010023751
GBB001809 bnb
015455070 Uk
Labor--History.
331.09 / DO-H
History of work - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2010. - xxi, 391 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hands to the grindstone -- Fettered lives -- Job creation -- The new religion of work -- The most important pile of bricks in the world -- Secrets of the dumb steeple -- The silent monitor -- The last puritan in a nation of amateurs -- The yellow dog unleashed -- The Philadelphia catechism -- Modern times -- Western Electric discovers motivation -- Unnatural selection -- Arbeit Macht Frei -- Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn? -- Managing the corporate state -- The wanting animal -- Sharp-suited philanthropists -- The end of management -- Melting the frozen assets -- The road to Panama -- One life. Live it -- Age of the search engine -- Postscript: new century, new ethic. by Warren Bennis -- Foreword / Acknowledgements -- Introduction --
"This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume that the Toronto 'Globe & Mail' calls "a page turner of a book". It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people"--
9780230238930
2010023751
GBB001809 bnb
015455070 Uk
Labor--History.
331.09 / DO-H