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Work - what is it good for?

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Work - what is it good for?

Laurie Taylor explores the history, harms and downsides to our contemporary work culture.

Work: What is it good for? Laurie Taylor explores the history, harms and downsides to our contemporary work culture.

Work: What is it good for? Laurie Taylor presents a special programme which takes a provocative look at work as a cultural norm. Josh Cohen, Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, considers the joys of inertia - of being rather than doing; Andrea Komlosy, Professor in the Department of Economics and Social History at the University of Vienna, probes the debate about work as burdensome toil versus work as creative expression and Anthony Lloyd, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University, examines workplace harms in the service sector.
Producer: Jayne Egerton

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