Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and ProcessesSpringer Science & Business Media, 1987 M04 30 - 244 pages Work occupies a pivotal role in the daily activities and over the course of a lifetime of members of modern societies. In anticipation, work influ ences education and training; it has much to do with shaping current earned income and status in the community; and in retrospect, it influ ences retirement income and activities. It is a powerful force affecting personal associations. In our society work is deeply encased in moral and religious values: As Poor Richard says, A Life of Leisure and a Life of Laziness are two Things. Do you imagine that Sloth will afford you more Comfort than Labour? No, for as Poor Richard says: ... Industry gives Comfort, and Plenty and Respect. Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. But few words have as many different meanings and nuances as "work": to forge or to shape, to stir or to knead, to solve, to exploit, to practice trickery for some end, to excite or to provoke, to persuade or to influence, to toil, and the like. A need for precision in meaning is requisite with respect to work, not only in common discourse, but, even more so, in scholarly communication. |
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Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes Arne L. Kalleberg,Ivar Berg Limited preview - 2013 |
Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes Arne L. Kalleberg,Ivar Berg No preview available - 1987 |
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Home-Based Employment and Family Life Ramona K. Z. Heck,Alma J. Owen,Barbara R. Rowe No preview available - 1995 |