Henry at Work : : Thoreau on Making a Living /

Henry at Work : : Thoreau on Making a Living / / John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle.

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Bell...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Kaag, John,
van Belle, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.) :; 12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Economy
  • 1 Resignation
  • 2 Clocking In
  • 3 Manual Work
  • 4 Machine Work
  • 5 Funny Business
  • 6 Meaningless Work
  • 7 Immoral Work
  • 8 Compensation
  • 9 Coworkers
  • 10 Fulfilling Work
  • Conclusion: The Business of Living
  • A Selective Chronology of Thoreau’s Work Life
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index

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