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Title:

Why work? : the perceptions of a "real job" and the rhetoric of work through the ages / Robin Patric Clair ... [et al].

Publisher:

Purdue University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xv, 196 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Work--Philosophy.
Work--History.
Labor--Philosophy.
Management--History.
Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Clair, Robin Patric.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.

Contents:

The ontology and history of work. The messy business of defining work; Philosophy and rhetoric of work -- Philosophers, rhetoricians, and activists. Plato and Aristotle: philosophies of labor; Confucius and St. Benedict: spiritual leaders; Adam Smith: the father of capitalism; Karl Marx: a challenge to capitalism; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: out of slavery; Mother Jones and Emma Goldman: labor activists; Emile Durkheim: the division of labor; Max Weber: the father of sociology and theorist of bureaucracy; Frederick Winslow Taylor: the father of scientific management; Mary Parker Follett: ahead of her time -- The meaning of work. Why work?: concluding remarks; Why work: an epilogue.

ISBN:

1557534543 (alk. paper)
9781557534545 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007001852

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)