Henry at Work (eBook)

Thoreau on Making a Living

Jonathan van Belle, John Kaag (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24471-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard-surveying land, running his family's pencil-making business, writing, lecturing, and building his cabin at Walden Pond-and thought intensely about work in its many dimensions. And his ideas about work have much to teach us in an age of remote work and automation, when many people are reconsidering what kind of working lives they want to have.Through Thoreau, readers will discover a philosophy of work in the office, factory, lumber mill, and grocery store, and reflect on the rhythms of the workday, the joys and risks of resigning oneself to work, the dubious promises of labor-saving technology, and that most vital and eternal of philosophical questions, "e;How much do I get paid?"e; In ten chapters, including "e;Manual Work,"e; "e;Machine Work,"e; and "e;Meaningless Work,"e; this personal, urgent, practical, and compassionate book introduces readers to their new favorite coworker: Henry David Thoreau.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 12 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: American Literature: John Kaag • Automation • Capitalism • College graduates • common reading program • Great Resignation • Henry David Thoreau • Home economics • Industrial Revolution • Jonathan Van Belle • Labor • off-the-grid living • permaculture • Productivity • Recession • Sustainable living • Time Management • Unemployment • urgent • Walden • work culture • Work Ethic • working from home • work-life balance • work reform
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24471-5 / 0691244715
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24471-6 / 9780691244716