Monday, 21 July 2014

Book Review: My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual By Al Gini

I have often wondered, what would have been the beginning of ‘work’ for mankind. Like all the animals, primitive man too would have worked, as a gatherer, picking readily available fruits and nuts, as a hunter, bringing down animals for their flesh and then slowly moving towards agriculture, wherein he began producing his own food in the fields. This beginning of ‘work’ had a very significant and focused need; the need for food, to keep away hunger. Then, slowly, man started clothing himself, built houses, grew pets, and traded his produces eventually leading to an explosion of the kind of works done by man. From doing all kinds of work for his living, mankind moved to a system where each individual began doing one specific work throughout his life and relying on the others for fulfilling the rest of his material needs. Even at this stage, when the society was small and man….
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