TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clair,Robin Patric
TI  - Why work?: the perceptions of a "real job" and the rhetoric of work through the ages 
SN  - 9781557534545 (pbk.) :
AV  - HD4904 .W488 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - West Lafayette, IN
PB  - Purdue University Press
KW  - Work
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Labor
KW  - Management
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index; The ontology and history of work. The messy business of defining work; Philosophy and rhetoric of work -- Philosophers, rhetoricians, and activists. Plato and Aristotle: philosophies of labor; Confucius and St. Benedict: spiritual leaders; Adam Smith: the father of capitalism; Karl Marx: a challenge to capitalism; Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: out of slavery; Mother Jones and Emma Goldman: labor activists; Emile Durkheim: the division of labor; Max Weber: the father of sociology and theorist of bureaucracy; Frederick Winslow Taylor: the father of scientific management; Mary Parker Follett: ahead of her time -- The meaning of work. Why work?: concluding remarks; Why work: an epilogue
ER  -