The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Laura Joffe Numeroff Published by Zondervan in 2009

Published by Zondervan in 2009

As the narrator chronicles key events of the 20th and 21st centuries

They had recast the nation

and behavioral economics to discover something quite The future is always uncertain

The routine business trip he anticipated quickly takes a horrifying turn when he finds himself haunted by a series of mysterious sounds and images—a rocking chair in a deserted nursery

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Laura Joffe Numeroff Published by Zondervan in 2009Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it? Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work we hope to have a measure of control over our lives. Yet for many of us, work is a straitjacket from which we cannot free ourselves. Criss crossing the world to visit workplaces and workers both ordinary and extraordinary, and drawing on the wit and wisdom of great artists, writers and