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
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The Story of Work 3. Work and the Romans
What is Work? Here we move on from the Greeks to the answers the Romans gave to the question of what ‘work’ is. While it has been a commonplace to regard the Romans as mereContinue 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