The story of work : a new history of humankind / Jan Lucassen.

The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day.

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Lucassen, Jan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Humans at work, 700,000-12,000 years ago
  • Farming and division of labour, 10000-5000 BCE
  • Emerging labour relations, 5000-500 BCE
  • Working for the market, 500 BCE-1500 CE
  • Globalization of labour relations, 1500-1800
  • Converging labour relations, 1800 to now
  • The changing significance of work, 1800 to now.