Tag: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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“The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work” – Book Review
One of the defining features of post-industrial economies in the early Twenty-First Century is specialization and an extensive division of labor. Unlike the farmer or the artisan who could immediately observe the impact of their labor on his fellow human beings, it is now difficult for us to know where the materials that support us…
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The pleasures and sorrows of work
The Economist: The pleasures and sorrows of workThe oddities of the daily grind ALAIN DE BOTTON is a British essayist, novelist and, if one uses the term somewhat expansively, philosopher. Over the past decade or so he has cast a world-weary eye over travel, status and architecture, as well as writing a fine book about…