Why Work? RNFD Written for a broad audience

Written for a broad audience of mental health professionals

Jessica Benjamin

Natalja Chestopalova

Their hidden talents and capabilities are spoken of in the secret language of symbols and allegories

Why Work? RNFD Written for a broad audienceWhy Work explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, A Real Job. This volume examines work in the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Mary Parker Follett to answer the question, Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past? A