Description: Why Work? : Their Perceptions of a Real Job and the Rhetoric of Work Through the Ages, Paperback by Clair, Robin Patric; Bell, Stephanie; Hackbarth, Kyle; Mathes, Stephanie; Mcconnell, Megan, ISBN 1557534543, ISBN-13 9781557534545, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Why Work explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, A Real Job. This volume examines work in the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T. Washington, . Du Bois, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Mary Parker Follett to answer the question, Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past? A final chapter re-examines the core issue in light of the vary concept of work and ask one more time why work? This work is a result of an Honors seminar at Purdue University.
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Book Title: Why Work? : Their Perceptions of a Real Job and the Rhetoric of W
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Name: Why Work? : the Perceptions of a Real Job and the Rhetoric of Work Through the Ages
Language: English
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Social, Rhetoric, Management, Labor, Essays
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 9.2 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Robin Patric Clair, Stephanie Bell, Megan Mcconnell
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Perfect
