Posted: Sun Jun 05, 05 10:53 am Post subject: The Workaday World
Radio 4 Tuesday 09:00 The Workaday World
Series offering a timely reassessment of our working lives.
1/4. Labour for Labour's Sake Is Against Nature
The political philosopher John Locke's verdict on work finds an echo 400 years on in the thinking of another Oxford academic, Theodore Zeldin. He wants work
abolished! In this programme, former union boss Bill Morris examines how the world of work has evolved in his lifetime and asks whether we live to work or work to live.
With the experiences of workers from across the employment spectrum and analysis and comment from, among others, Will Hutton of the Work Foundation, philosopher Alain de Botton and author Charles Handy.