3 - The Anthropology and Economics of Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2021
Summary
The previous two chapters have painted a rather grim picture of work and its place in human life, at any rate since the time when humans became sedentary and then eventually began systematically to practise agriculture in a way that made us dependent on it. It seems that the necessity for a society to produce enough for subsistence trickled down through an almost unsurveyably varied series of complex paths to a highly local form of coercion which forces me in this specific situation to exert myself strenuously at an unpleasant task that I would prefer not to do. Is the situation really as dismal as this might be taken to suggest?
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- A Philosopher Looks at Work , pp. 76 - 114Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021