The job as we know it was basically invented in the late C19th; before that, almost everything was piece-work – great talk from @judyzara! #ASIForum pic.twitter.com/8s6xD8Dn2s
— Stian Westlake (@stianwestlake) December 9, 2017
It’s often tempting – because it’s easy – to think that the way things currently are is the necessary and natural way of their being. That can be a useful and pragmatic assumption. Until it isn’t.