Introduction : analyzing work as an experience -- Work in premodern societies -- Work and the American tradition -- The impact of industrialization -- Modern work the American way -- Rearranging modern work : the young, the old, and the female -- Global trends in the past half-century : the...

Introduction -- Terms and concepts -- Work discourses -- Work and language -- Categories of analysis -- Divisions of labour: the simultaneity and combination of (different) labour relations -- Historical cross-sections -- Combining labour relations in the longue duree