_______________ '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?
