Suzman, James,

Work : a history of how we spend our time / James Suzman. - x, 444 pages : illustrations (black and white)

Introduction: the economic problem -- I. In the beginning -- To live is to work -- Idle hands and busy beaks -- Tools and skills -- Fire's other gifts -- II. The provident environment -- 'The original affluent society' -- Ghosts in the forest -- III. Toiling in the fields -- Leaping off the edge -- Feasts and famines -- Time is money -- The first machines -- IV. Creatures of the city -- The bright lights -- The malady of infinite aspiration -- Top talent --The death of a salaryman -- The new disease.

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Work--History.
Work-life balance.

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