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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Life on Earth boosts entropy by taking in and spending energy, often quite puzzlingly.
Chapter 3: Tool use significantly shaped our physical and neurological evolutionary paths.
Chapter 4: As Homo sapiens left Africa, their view of work fundamentally shifted thereafter.
Chapter 5: Early farmers needed to labor far more than hunter-gatherers did.
Chapter 6: The earliest notions of money’s value emerged through farming.
Chapter 7: Prospering through animal domestication paved the path to human enslavement.
Chapter 8: Cities compelled people to rethink how, and with whom, they worked.
Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution ushered in an age of inequality unmatched in human history.
Description
Work (2020) is an anthropological history of the human relationship with work. From the first single-celled bacteria in the oceans billions of years ago to the unprecedented wealth inequality we experience today, Work is a sweeping history of what motivates our species.
Who Should Listen
- All those wondering whether they have a “bullshit job”
- Deep-divers who love human history and how we got here
- People who worry about how they spend their time