If you are new to this serial story, you can find the Introduction here. Like any serial, each episode builds on what has gone before, so if you find yourself confusing your labor with yourContinue reading
Category: History
The Story of Work 5. Work and the Early Christians 2: Time Discipline and St Benedict
This post, episode 4 of the story of work, sets out the basis for that time discipline that will become central to twentieth-century management advice. Even if we aren’t Christian, Benedict’s Rule is still fundamentalContinue reading
The Story of Work 2. Work and the Ancient Greeks
What is ‘work’? This is the first post where I try to answer the question by looking at the long and very varied history of the concept, starting from the ancient Greeks. So working wasContinue reading
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