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Posts published by “Larisa Menjivar”

How has humans’ relationship with work changed over millennia?

THE STUDY of working life tends to be dominated by economists, management consultants and business-school professors. So it is nice to get a new perspective. James Suzman, an anthropologist, provides that fresh appraisal in an ambitious new book called “Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time”.Mr Suzman’s interpretation has a quasi-Biblical feel in…