This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people.

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RICHARD DONKIN is one of the UK's leading thinkers on employment. For fourteen years he wrote a weekly column on work and employment in the Financial Times that became required reading for human resources professionals and recruiters. Today he works as an author, commentator and presenter on management and employment issues. Donkin undertakes regular speaking engagements and consultancy work. He is a former adviser to the Future Employment Working Group of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and an honorary visiting fellow in the faculty of Management at Cass Business School.

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Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Hands To The Grindstone Fettered Lives Job Creation The New Religion of Work The Most Important Pile of Bricks in the World Secrets of the Dumb Steeple The Silent Monitor The Last Puritan in a Nation of Amateurs The Yellow Dog Unleashed The Philadelphia Catechism Modern Times Western Electric Discovers Motivation Unnatural Selection Arbeit Mach Frei Whatever Happened to Homer Sarasohn Managing the Corporate State The Wanting Animal Sharp-Suited Philanthropists The End of Management Melting the Frozen Assets The Road to Panama One Life. Live it. Postscript: New Century, New Ethic Notes Index