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Author:

Suzman, James, author.

Title:

Work : a deep history, from the stone age to the age of robots / James Suzman.

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Work--History.

Notes:

"First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Circus, part of the Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

Summary:

"A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0525561757
9780525561750

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1153481227

LCCN:

2020040534

Locations:

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

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)