Foreword / by Warren Bennis
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Hands to the grindstone
Fettered lives
Job creation
The new religion of work
The most important pile of bricks in the world
Secrets of the dumb steeple
The silent monitor
The last puritan in a nation of amateurs
The yellow dog unleashed
The Philadelphia catechism
Modern times
Western Electric discovers motivation
Unnatural selection
Arbeit Macht Frei
Whatever happened to Homer Sarasohn?
Managing the corporate state
The wanting animal
Sharp-suited philanthropists
The end of management
Melting the frozen assets
The road to Panama
One life. Live it
Age of the search engine
Postscript: new century, new ethic.
The history of work by Richard Donkin. ISBN 9780230238930. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.