James Suzman - Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

Season 1, Episode 47,   Sep 23, 2020, 09:35 PM

James Suzman offers us a new lens to look into the past, present and future of working to live and living to work – at a time when the pandemic has forced us to re-think our role as employers, employees, clients, suppliers - and the time we divide between home and the (home)office.

In this episode Richard Kilgarriff shares OMI with social anthropologist James Suzman, digging deep into the “evolutionary legacy” behind our need to work.
James Suzman has lived with the Bushmen of Botswana’s eastern Kalahari for more than 25 years. He is the author of Affluence Without Abundance and heads the Cambridge-based research and support organisation Anthropos. 
Get a copy fo James Suzman's new book WORK: A HISTORY OF HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME HERE