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"We cannot understand work apart from society and historical change."
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2001HUM International Change and the Social World Assessment Item 1: Essay "We cannot understand work apart from society and historical change." This purpose of this essay is to outline the stark contrasts between traditional, pre-industrial and industrial societies to work. It will show how work is inexorably interconnected with society and how historical change has led to our understanding of work today. In traditional societies, such as those of the pre-colonial, Australian Aboriginals, there was no concept of money, or work for either profit or accumulation. (Reynolds: 1981) They lived their lives as survival dictated. There was no wage-labour, no separation of work from non-work (Reynolds: 1981) and no concept of time or work, presumably because these two concepts are so closely related. (Thompson: 1967) In traditional Orokaivan society, there was not even a generic term for work. (Schwimmer: 1980) Similarly, there was also no equivalent to the word leisure, as leisure's meaning is...
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