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Carregando... Sie nannten es Arbeit: Eine andere Geschichte der Menschheit (original: 2021; edição: 2021)de James Suzman (Autor), Karl Heinz Siber (Übersetzer)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Starts with a review of what “work” really means and then explores the history of human work. I really loved the close attention to what the daily “productive” lives of long-ago people may have been like, long before recorded history. The last few chapters, about what work has become in the last couple thousand years was weaker, I thought, or maybe just more familiar. Anyone who has enjoyed Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5000 Years” or James C Scott’s “Seeing Like a State” would probably like this book also. ( ) This is an interesting, if maybe a bit too wide-ranging book on work and its role in our lives. Many of us take work to be essential to human life. Suzman writes that not only did work only really begin with agricultural practices, but that they way we work now is a very recent phenomenon. Even the standard workweek only came into being with consumer capitalism. History gives us ways to reconsider our obsession with work. I started this book during my recent, thankfully brief, period of unemployment earlier this year, for perhaps obvious reasons. I was expecting a sort of sociopolitical examination of our relationship to work, but it is rather more than that. James Suzman is an anthropologist specializing in hunter-gatherers of southern Africa, and he takes a very broad perspective. Though the book is thoroughly documented with sources in the footnotes and it is written by an academic, it was blessedly not bogged down by acadamese or jargon and was a pleasure to read. Though it can be read as an indictment of capitalism, it is far from a political screed. It is much more an examination of humanity’s relationship to work, a look at the ways various cultures approach work, and some thoughtful suggestions about better ways we could deal with “the Economic Problem.” I learned a lot about more recent economics, such as the “Great Decoupling,” when GDP became “decoupled” from the median household income, and how this means greater wealth inequality. I also learned about alternative approaches to the “Econonomic Problem.” While this is not necessarily a hopeful book, it’s also not entirely gloom and doom. I’d recommend this to thoughtful millennials who are interested in new economic approaches for reducing inequality and hopefully healthier and more satisfying relationships to work. Das Buch hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Da Geschichte eigentlich nicht zu meinem Interessengebiet gehört, war vieles neu für mich. Das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Arbeit vom ersten prähistorischen Menschen bis heute wird beleuchtet. Letztendlich fand ich es tröstlich, zu sehen, wie sich die Menschen entwickelt haben, dass immer wieder Kulturen untergegangen sind, aber auch neue entstanden. In Dimensionen von Jahrmillionen oder auch nur Hunderttausend Jahren wird unser jetziger katastrophaler Zustand der Welt sicher anders zu bewerten sein, als wenn man mittendrin steckt. Falls es in fernen Zukunft jemand gibt, der einer Bewertung fähig ist. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"This book is a tour de force." -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzman Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It mediates our self-worth and molds our values. But are we hard-wired to work as hard as we do? Did our Stone Age ancestors also live to work and work to live? And what might a world where work plays a far less important role look like? To answer these questions, James Suzman charts a grand history of "work" from the origins of life on Earth to our ever more automated present, challenging some of our deepest assumptions about who we are. Drawing insights from anthropology, archaeology, evolutionary biology, zoology, physics, and economics, he shows that while we have evolved to find joy meaning and purpose in work, for most of human history our ancestors worked far less and thought very differently about work than we do now. He demonstrates how our contemporary culture of work has its roots in the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago. Our sense of what it is to be human was transformed by the transition from foraging to food production, and, later, our migration to cities. Since then, our relationships with one another and with our environments, and even our sense of the passage of time, have not been the same. Arguing that we are in the midst of a similarly transformative point in history, Suzman shows how automation might revolutionize our relationship with work and in doing so usher in a more sustainable and equitable future for our world and ourselves. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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