Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots — Why We Still Work So Much
Humanity has never been more productive. So why does work still dominate so much of our lives?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist James Suzman challenges conventional assumptions about scarcity, human ambition, and the seemingly endless necessity of labor.
Drawing on research into the Ju/’hoansi hunter-gatherers of southern Africa, Suzman reveals how different human societies have organized work around fundamentally different expectations of abundance, security, and…
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