_______________ 'A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what
work means' - Yuval Noah Harari 'There is eminently underlinable stuff on most pages ...
Fascinating' - The Times 'One of those few books that will turn your customary ways of
thinking upside down' - Susan Cain 'Illuminating' - New Statesman _______________ A
revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work from the origins of life on
Earth to our ever more automated present The work we do brings us meaning moulds our values
determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn't always
the case: for 95% of our species' history work held a radically different importance. How
then did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it
transform our bodies our environments our views on equality and our sense of time? And why
in a time of material abundance are we working more than ever before?
