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| "Two Tramps in Mud Time" | p. 1 |
| Introduction: Work and the Humanities | p. 3 |
| "The Future of Work" | p. 11 |
| Voices from the Workplace: Our Complex Relations to Work | p. 28 |
| Ecclesiastes 1:2-5, 2 and 3 | p. 30 |
| The Yin and Yang of Work: Our Ambivalent Feelings about Work | p. 33 |
| Work as a Curse | p. 36 |
| Genesis 3:14-24 | p. 36 |
| "The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck" | p. 37 |
| Interview with Mike Lefevre, Steelworker, from Working | p. 41 |
| Finding Our Identities through Work | p. 46 |
| Matthew 25:14-30 | p. 46 |
| Interview with Dolores Dante, Waitress, from Working | p. 47 |
| "Work" | p. 49 |
| An Alternative American View of Work | p. 51 |
| "The Arkansas Traveler" | p. 51 |
| from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | p. 52 |
| Materialism and Spiritual Values | p. 54 |
| A Worker's Voice: A San Francisco Dockworker | p. 57 |
| Finding Meaning in the Material World | p. 58 |
| "Advice to a Young Tradesman" | p. 58 |
| "The Professor Waking" | p. 60 |
| Worlds to Choose From | p. 62 |
| "The World Is Too Much with Us" | p. 62 |
| "The Iron Messiah" | p. 64 |
| Finding Meaning in Spiritual Living | p. 66 |
| from Walden | p. 66 |
| Humans as Commodities: Conformity and Rebellion | p. 74 |
| A Worker's Voice: Scottish Coal-Mining Girl | p. 76 |
| Conformity | p. 76 |
| "The Unknown Citizen" | p. 76 |
| "The Man in the Dead Machine" | p. 78 |
| "The Daily Grind" | p. 80 |
| "Portrait of a Machine" | p. 81 |
| Rebellion | p. 83 |
| "Ain't I a Woman?" | p. 83 |
| "Song to the Men of England" | p. 84 |
| "Professions for Women" | p. 86 |
| "I Have Seen Black Hands" | p. 91 |
| "The White Negro" | p. 94 |
| Alienation and Integration | p. 101 |
| A Worker's Voice: General Motors Autoworker | p. 104 |
| Alienation | p. 104 |
| "Bartleby the Scrivener" | p. 104 |
| "I Stand Here Ironing" | p. 138 |
| Integration | p. 146 |
| "Useful Work Versus Useless Toil" | p. 146 |
| "In My Craft or Sullen Art" | p. 159 |
| The History of Work in the Western World | p. 161 |
| Quotes from Western History | p. 163 |
| Western Ways of Working before the Industrial Revolution | p. 166 |
| Classical Greece | p. 167 |
| from "Works and Days" | p. 167 |
| from The Republic | p. 172 |
| The Medieval World | p. 185 |
| from "The Feet of the Commonwealth" | p. 185 |
| from "Piers Ploughman" | p. 187 |
| The Conceptual Foundations of Modern Work | p. 196 |
| The Founding Story: A New Paradigm | p. 202 |
| from Second Treatise of Government | p. 202 |
| "Of the Division of Labour" from Wealth of Nations | p. 215 |
| Salvation, Work, and the New Paradigm | p. 226 |
| from Religion and the Rise of Capitalism | p. 226 |
| "Young Goodman Brown" | p. 236 |
| Moral and Religious Concerns with the New Paradigm | p. 249 |
| "Alienated Labour" | p. 249 |
| "Good Country People" | p. 259 |
| The Promises and Problems of Modernism | p. 279 |
| Progress, Wealth, and New Images of Individuals and Society | p. 285 |
| "Dover Beach" | p. 285 |
| from The World We Have Lost | p. 287 |
| "Labour" | p. 296 |
| from The Triumph of Industrial Enterprise | p. 302 |
| "The Gospel of Wealth" | p. 313 |
| "The Trees in the Garden" | p. 319 |
| Problems in the Workplace | p. 321 |
| "Hard Times in the Mill" | p. 321 |
| "On Manufacturers" | p. 322 |
| "That Aristocracy May Be Engendered by Manufactures" | p. 324 |
| "Workers and the Reorganization of Production" | p. 328 |
| "Making a Change" | p. 338 |
| Problems for Workers | p. 346 |
| The Hidden Injuries of Class | p. 346 |
| "The Rocking Horse Winner" | p. 351 |
| "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" | p. 366 |
| "Murdering the Innocents" | p. 367 |
| from The Grapes of Wrath | p. 372 |
| Consumerism: Salvaging the Promises of Modernism? | p. 380 |
| "pity this busy monster, manunkind" | p. 380 |
| "Playboy and Miss America" | p. 382 |
| "One off the Short List" | p. 389 |
| Other Paradigms: Visions of the Future of Working in America | p. 413 |
| from On Human Work | p. 417 |
| Visions of Work from Other Cultures | p. 430 |
| "The Originial Affluent Society" | p. 435 |
| "The Joy of Work as Participation" | p. 447 |
| Visions of Good Work in the Modern World | p. 456 |
| "The Abolition of Work" | p. 463 |
| "The Myth of Sisyphus" | p. 474 |
| "Buddhist Economics" | p. 478 |
| "The Dynamo and the Virgin" | p. 486 |
| "Motherearth and Megamachine" | p. 498 |
| "A Visit to Those Who Succeeded" | p. 507 |
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