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Why We Work: Understanding Work through the Prism of Art and Culture (Undergraduate - SII 199)

This subject guide is meant to assist students, particularly those enrolled in SII 199H1S Section L0441 Woodsworth College Course , with research papers and assignments.

Resources: All About Work

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Foundations and Current Issues in IR/HR

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[photo by Edward Burtynski] The Atlantic, November 24, 2014: "The Ship Breakers," photos by Alan Taylor]

Foundations in Current Issues in IR/HR course guide debate/essay topics

Work - Selected Books in the CIRHR Library

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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Publication Date: 2018
Work: The Last 1,000 Years by Andrea Komlosy; Loren Balhorn (Translator); Jacob Watson (Translator)
Publication Date: 2018

The Refusal of Work: the Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
Publication Date: 2015
The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives by Virginia Mantouvalou (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Do What You Love: and Other Lies About Success and Happiness by Miya Tokumitsu
Publication Date: 2015
Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance by Roland Paulsen
Publication Date: 2015
A World of Work: Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs by Ilana Gershon (Editor); Jean Lave (Afterword by)
Publication Date: 2015
Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
Publication Date: 2015
Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval
Publication Date: 2015

Just Work: Narratives of Employment in the 21st Century by Grant Michelson; Shaun Ryan
Publication Date: 2014
Overwhelmed : Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time by Brigid Schulte
Publication Date: 2014
The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many and What Can Be Done To Improve It by David Weil
Publication Date: 2014

The Org: the Underlying Logic of Office by Ray Fisman; Tim Sullivan
Publication Date: 2013

Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century by Marvin R. Weisbord
Publication Date: 2012

Why Work? The Perceptions of a "Real Job" and the Rhetoric of Work Through the Ages by Robin Patric Clair; Megan McConnell; Stephanie Bell; Kyle Hackbarth; Stephanie Mathes
Publication Date: 2008

Work : the world in photographs by Ferdinand Protzman
Publication Date: 2006

Just Work by Russell Muirhead
Publication Date: 2004

Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Evolution of work by Richard Donkin; Warren Bennis (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 2001

The Working Life: the Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work by Joanne B. Ciulla
Publication Date: 2000

The Corrosion of Character: the Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
Call Number: e-book
Publication Date: 1998

The Protestant Work Ethic: the Psychology of Work Related Beliefs and Behaviours by Adrian F. Furnham; J. Greenberg (Foreword by)
Publication Date: 1990

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day And How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
Publication Date: 1974