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The Pleasures & Sorrows of Work (First Year Read, 2022)

A guide to the 2022 First Year Read Program pick, The Pleasures & Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (2009).

“I was inspired by the men at the pier to attempt a hymn to the intelligence, peculiarity, beauty and horror of the modern workplace and, not least, its extraordinary claim to be able to provide us, alongside love, with the principal source of life’s meaning.” (2009, p. 30)

Image: The CMA CGM Brazil calls at Port of New York & New Jersey
Photo credit: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (Flickr), September 12, 2020, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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