Why are we obsessed with work?
Do you ever feel like work is taking over your life? Well, society didn’t always place so much value on work ethic. Ben Henderson and Alice Loxton uncover the surprising history behind our modern obsession with hard work. First, medieval marriage reforms transformed people’s relationship with work. Then, monastic…
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