The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present day We work because we have to, but also because

"This book is a tour de force." --Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of w

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: f

Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and tran

This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its further formalization leads to equilibrium principle and to the