Working in America : A Humanities Reader
, by Sessions, R.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780268019488 | 0268019487
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/31/1992
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" | p. 1 |
Introduction: Work and the Humanities | p. 3 |
"The Future of Work" | p. 11 |
Voices from the Workplace: Our Complex Relations to Work | p. 28 |
Ecclesiastes 1:2-5, 2 and 3 | p. 30 |
The Yin and Yang of Work: Our Ambivalent Feelings about Work | p. 33 |
Work as a Curse | p. 36 |
Genesis 3:14-24 | p. 36 |
"The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck" | p. 37 |
Interview with Mike Lefevre, Steelworker, from Working | p. 41 |
Finding Our Identities through Work | p. 46 |
Matthew 25:14-30 | p. 46 |
Interview with Dolores Dante, Waitress, from Working | p. 47 |
"Work" | p. 49 |
An Alternative American View of Work | p. 51 |
"The Arkansas Traveler" | p. 51 |
from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | p. 52 |
Materialism and Spiritual Values | p. 54 |
A Worker's Voice: A San Francisco Dockworker | p. 57 |
Finding Meaning in the Material World | p. 58 |
"Advice to a Young Tradesman" | p. 58 |
"The Professor Waking" | p. 60 |
Worlds to Choose From | p. 62 |
"The World Is Too Much with Us" | p. 62 |
"The Iron Messiah" | p. 64 |
Finding Meaning in Spiritual Living | p. 66 |
from Walden | p. 66 |
Humans as Commodities: Conformity and Rebellion | p. 74 |
A Worker's Voice: Scottish Coal-Mining Girl | p. 76 |
Conformity | p. 76 |
"The Unknown Citizen" | p. 76 |
"The Man in the Dead Machine" | p. 78 |
"The Daily Grind" | p. 80 |
"Portrait of a Machine" | p. 81 |
Rebellion | p. 83 |
"Ain't I a Woman?" | p. 83 |
"Song to the Men of England" | p. 84 |
"Professions for Women" | p. 86 |
"I Have Seen Black Hands" | p. 91 |
"The White Negro" | p. 94 |
Alienation and Integration | p. 101 |
A Worker's Voice: General Motors Autoworker | p. 104 |
Alienation | p. 104 |
"Bartleby the Scrivener" | p. 104 |
"I Stand Here Ironing" | p. 138 |
Integration | p. 146 |
"Useful Work Versus Useless Toil" | p. 146 |
"In My Craft or Sullen Art" | p. 159 |
The History of Work in the Western World | p. 161 |
Quotes from Western History | p. 163 |
Western Ways of Working before the Industrial Revolution | p. 166 |
Classical Greece | p. 167 |
from "Works and Days" | p. 167 |
from The Republic | p. 172 |
The Medieval World | p. 185 |
from "The Feet of the Commonwealth" | p. 185 |
from "Piers Ploughman" | p. 187 |
The Conceptual Foundations of Modern Work | p. 196 |
The Founding Story: A New Paradigm | p. 202 |
from Second Treatise of Government | p. 202 |
"Of the Division of Labour" from Wealth of Nations | p. 215 |
Salvation, Work, and the New Paradigm | p. 226 |
from Religion and the Rise of Capitalism | p. 226 |
"Young Goodman Brown" | p. 236 |
Moral and Religious Concerns with the New Paradigm | p. 249 |
"Alienated Labour" | p. 249 |
"Good Country People" | p. 259 |
The Promises and Problems of Modernism | p. 279 |
Progress, Wealth, and New Images of Individuals and Society | p. 285 |
"Dover Beach" | p. 285 |
from The World We Have Lost | p. 287 |
"Labour" | p. 296 |
from The Triumph of Industrial Enterprise | p. 302 |
"The Gospel of Wealth" | p. 313 |
"The Trees in the Garden" | p. 319 |
Problems in the Workplace | p. 321 |
"Hard Times in the Mill" | p. 321 |
"On Manufacturers" | p. 322 |
"That Aristocracy May Be Engendered by Manufactures" | p. 324 |
"Workers and the Reorganization of Production" | p. 328 |
"Making a Change" | p. 338 |
Problems for Workers | p. 346 |
The Hidden Injuries of Class | p. 346 |
"The Rocking Horse Winner" | p. 351 |
"A Black Man Talks of Reaping" | p. 366 |
"Murdering the Innocents" | p. 367 |
from The Grapes of Wrath | p. 372 |
Consumerism: Salvaging the Promises of Modernism? | p. 380 |
"pity this busy monster, manunkind" | p. 380 |
"Playboy and Miss America" | p. 382 |
"One off the Short List" | p. 389 |
Other Paradigms: Visions of the Future of Working in America | p. 413 |
from On Human Work | p. 417 |
Visions of Work from Other Cultures | p. 430 |
"The Originial Affluent Society" | p. 435 |
"The Joy of Work as Participation" | p. 447 |
Visions of Good Work in the Modern World | p. 456 |
"The Abolition of Work" | p. 463 |
"The Myth of Sisyphus" | p. 474 |
"Buddhist Economics" | p. 478 |
"The Dynamo and the Virgin" | p. 486 |
"Motherearth and Megamachine" | p. 498 |
"A Visit to Those Who Succeeded" | p. 507 |
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