SOAN 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Eric Hobsbawm, Cardinal Virtues, Wage Labour
30 Jan 2016
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Chapter 4: the industrial revolution and beyond: culture, work, and. Work, in one form or another, is a primordial feature of human life. Humans create not only tools, but also institutional and cultural arrangements that envelop such tools. Although each culture tends to define its own work arrangements as natural, anthropological and historical research indicates just how variable work arrangements are. Those who life in the advanced industrial world are most familiar with work in terms of paid employment. This is relatively a recent invention and was uncommon in 1800"s when farmers and workers regarded wage labor as a morally suspect way of eking out one"s living. The triumph of wage labor in fact owes much to the industrial revolution, which first gripped in. An important part of this story involves the sharp separation that arose between home and work, for this division had important effects on gender and intimate life.
