Connexions: Work

Ward, Colin
Publisher:  Penguin, United Kingdom
Year Published:  1972
Pages:  64pp   ISBN:  0-14-08-0636-9
Resource Type:  Book

Ward asks what do we want out of work? A fair wage or satisfaction as well? Do many of the methods employers use to try and make labour less tediou like automation -- actually create more problems?

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Table of Contents

Is it Natural?

Part I. Starting Work
1. Child's Play
2. Working Children
3. Choosing a Job for Billy Casper
4. The Initiation

Part II. The Reality of Work
5. The Splendour of Work
6. Where Did the Glory Go?
7. End of the Protestant Ethic
8. A Woman's Work is Not Much Fun
9. Down Tools!

Part III. Living Without Work
10. Ginger Mills
11. On the Dole

Part IV. The Future of Work
12. Paying Men Not to Work
13. Shopping Around Swapping Around
14. Short Hours / Long Leisure
15. Abolishing the Difference Between Work and Leisure
16. Doing Your Own Thing
17. But Suppose the Workers Took Over?
18. Face to Face with Ourselves

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