The Oxford Book of Work, Keith Thomas

Saba Imru Mathieu
Keith Thomas has compiled an extraordinary collection of insights by many different authors across the centuries on their view about work. Philosophers, politicians, writers, poets, artists and scientists offer a variety of concepts of work from "primal curse" to means of "self-realization".  This book helps us become aware of our's underlying beliefs about work and how they influence our experience of it.
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