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

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The Servant Problem

Lewis H. Lapham

The Mother of Possibility

Sven Birkerts

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

Cornering the Market

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

What Is Human Becomes Animal

1844 | Paris

Power Points

1861 | London

Labor Contract

3761 BC | Eden

Goodbye to the Bourgeoisie

1650 | York

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

Commercial Art

Time Management

Teamwork

Workers of the World Unite

The Worst Jobs in the World

Cruel and/or Unusual

Mistakes Were Made

Help Wanted

Fired!

Workaday World

Job Security

Contributors

Conversations

Philip Dormer Stanhope & Louis C.K.

Mencius & John Ruskin

Martin Luther & Bertrand Russell

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