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The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs. Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity's busy labor throughout the ages. Spanning China, India, Africa, the Americas, and Europe, Lucassen looks at the ways in which humanity organizes work: in the household, the tribe, the city, and the state. He examines how labor is split between men, women, and children; the watershed moment of the invention of money; the collective action of workers; and at the impact of migration, slavery, and the idea of leisure. From peasant farmers in the first agrarian societies to the precarious existence of today's gig workers, this surprising account of both cooperation and subordination at work throws essential light on the opportunities we face today
The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day.
In: International and comparative social history 10
In: Migratie- en etnische studies
In: T.seg: the low countries journal of social and economic history, Volume 20, Issue 2
ISSN: 2468-9068
In: International review of social history, Volume 64, Issue 2, p. 195-200
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: International review of social history, Volume 61, Issue 2, p. 317-327
ISSN: 1469-512X
In: Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis: t.seg, Volume 11, Issue 3, p. 73
ISSN: 2468-9068
In: Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis: t.seg, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 65
ISSN: 2468-9068
In: Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis: t.seg, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 117
ISSN: 2468-9068
In: International review of social history, Volume 57, Issue 2, p. 310-313
ISSN: 1469-512X