CHAPTER TWENTY
What We Know About Work, Working, and Worker
WORK HAS BEEN CENTRAL to human consciousness for untold ages. Man is not truly defined as the toolmaker, but making tools, the systematic, purposeful, and organized approach to work, is specific and unique in human activity. Work has, therefore, been a profound concern for millennia.
What was always a profound concern became central with the industrial revolution. The economic and social theories of the last two hundred years center on work.
However central work has been all along, organized study of work did not begin until the closing decades of the nineteenth century. Frederick W. ...
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