TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donkin,Richard
TI  - History of work 
SN  - 9780230238930 
U1  - 331.09 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Labor
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword; by Warren Bennis --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -