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The gestation period for this book was about six years. That’s six years spent grappling with the idea of change within permanency, the idea that we are undergoing a revolution in society without needing to venture out of our sitting rooms to see it. It’s a quiet revolution. Or at least it has been quiet up to now.
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
(H. L. Mencken, 1880–1956)
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George Ochoa and Melinda Corey, The Fitzroy Dearborn Chronology of Ideas, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, p. 190.
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Donkin, R. (2010). Postscript: New Century, New Ethic. In: The History of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282179_24
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