Book chapter
A History of Work as Lived Experience
Debating a Post-Work Future, pp.41-60
Routledge
2024
DOI: 10.4324/9781003321033-5
Abstract
Instead of assuming, as do most histories of work, that work is a universal human experience, I trace the development of "work" as lived experiences - a variable social construct that changes over location and time. I focus on the ways (by words, stories, rituals, social institutions) that humans have conceptualized "work" as a recognizable subset within the total range of subsistence-related activities. "Work" as we know and value it is a recent social invention, less than three centuries old. I conclude that just as it has changed over time, "work" is still in the process of evolving. Appearing only recently, "work's" centrality is a fragile ideology/religion. It is the modern elevation of "work" to life's center that appears to be ending, not work as it has been understood for millennia as a means to an end.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A History of Work as Lived Experience
- Creators
- Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
- Contributors
- Denise Celentano (Editor)Michael Cholbi (Editor)Jean-Philippe Deranty (Editor)Kory P. Schaff (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Debating a Post-Work Future, pp.41-60
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003321033-5
- Alternative title
- A History of Work as Lived Experience
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2024
- Academic Unit
- Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984618625702771
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