Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes

Arne L. Kallebert and Ivar Berg (Authors); John T. Dunlop (With a Foreword by);

ISBN 10: 0306423448 / ISBN 13: 9780306423444

Published by Plenum Press/ A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York & London, 1987

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244 pp. Flawless book. There is no dj.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Work and Industry: Structures, Markets, and Processes
• Publisher: Plenum Press/ A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York & London
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306423448
• ISBN 13: 9780306423444
• Binding: Decorative Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Labor Studies
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Social Studies & Sciences, Sociology, Social Work

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Synopsis

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.