Collected Works
Angus Calder, 5 January 1989
Men, Women and Work: Class, Gender and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910
by Mary Blewett.
Illinois, 444 pp., $29.95, July 1988,0 252 01484 7 Show More
by Mary Blewett.
Illinois, 444 pp., $29.95, July 1988,
Men’s Lives
by Peter Matthiessen.
Collins Harvill, 335 pp., £15, August 1988,0 00 272519 3 Show More
by Peter Matthiessen.
Collins Harvill, 335 pp., £15, August 1988,
On Work: Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Approaches
edited by R.E. Pahl.
Blackwell, 752 pp., £39.95, July 1988,9780631157625 Show More
edited by R.E. Pahl.
Blackwell, 752 pp., £39.95, July 1988,
Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour
edited by Léonie Archer.
Routledge, 307 pp., £28, August 1988,0 415 00203 6 Show More
edited by Léonie Archer.
Routledge, 307 pp., £28, August 1988,
The Historical Meanings of Work
edited by Patrick Joyce.
Cambridge, 320 pp., £27.50, September 1987,0 521 30897 6 Show More
edited by Patrick Joyce.
Cambridge, 320 pp., £27.50, September 1987,
Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland’s Century 1590-1710
by David Stevenson.
Cambridge, 246 pp., £25, November 1988,0 521 35326 2 Show More
by David Stevenson.
Cambridge, 246 pp., £25, November 1988,
“... The Book of Genesis explains that work is a punishment inflicted on humans for Adam’s Fall. In the Authorised Version, God tells Adam: ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground.’ The New English Bible translates as ‘labour’ what King James’s scholars called ‘sorrow’ – ‘Accursed shall be the ground on your account ... ”
