A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Ill, photograph by Jack Delano, 1942. Library of Congress.

A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Illinois, 1942. Photograph by Jack Delano. Library of Congress.

Lines of Work

Volume IV, Number 2 | spring 2011

The Servant Problem

Lewis H. Lapham

Pushing Paper

Ben Kafka

Lost Tools

Donovan Hohn

Tools of the Trade

Peter Stothard

Treasure Hunt

Alain de Botton

A Talent for Sloth

Philip Connors

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Instruction Manual

c. 321 BC | India

Skilled Labor

c. 335 BC | Henan

Decent Help

1888 | London

The Hive Mind

1714 | London

Stitches in Time

c. 530 | Monte Cassino

Between Sharks and Spades

1851 | Atlantic Ocean

Divide and Conquer

1776 | London

Unemployment Benefits

1935 | New York City

Always Be Closing

1992 | Chicago

Work Ethic

c. 30 BC | Lombardy

A Single-Minded Scientist

c. 1750 | Ingolstadt

Sound Investment

1789 | England

Power Points

1861 | London

Labor Contract

3761 BC | Eden

Public Servant

458 BC | Rome

Price Adjustment

1988 | Austin, TX

A Case of Sexual Harassment

1828 | North Carolina

Public Works

c. 445 BC | Athens

Hands Full

1839 | Stonegappe

The Devil’s Tools

1621 | Oxford

Satanic Mill

1802 | Manchester

4:30 Feeling

216 | China

Cost-Benefit Analysis

c. 1330 | Kyoto

Trading Commodities

1923 | New York City

Sow and Reap

806 | China

Clear-Sighted Ambition

1778 | Paris

Serfs Up

1525 | Bavaria

Assigned Positions

c. 1548 | Geneva

Set Decoration

1976 | Pagsanjan

Quality Control

2010 | Los Angeles

Mutual Interest

c. 1923 | Paris

Spending Time

1899 | Chicago

Charts and Graphs

Contributors

Conversations

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