Research Guides: The Pleasures &amp; Sorrows of Work (First Year Read, 2022): Cited & Inspired By the Author

Image: A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, by Titian, c. 1510.
Held by The National Gallery, UK. Public domain.

Mentioned in the chapter Painting as one the painter Stephen Taylor found especially influential.

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780203995808
Publication Date: 2005-08-16
Mentioned in the chapter on Biscuits, the Protestant Work Ethic is criticized in Max Weber's influential 1904 book.
Unto This Last by John Ruskin
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9781775414636
Publication Date: 2009-04-01
In the chapter on Biscuits, de Botton cites John Ruskin, noted Victorian art critic, author, and intellectual, who observed that wasting a person's labor was the worst of all possible wastes. This 1862 series of essays by Ruskin discusses the importance of fair pay and treatment for workers.
Vilfredo Pareto by Alasdair J. Marshall; Joseph V. Femia
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780754699774
Publication Date: 2009-02-28
In the chapter on Biscuits, de Botton notes that the cookie company's success followed the theories of Vilfredo Pareto, an economist, on the growth of more individualized job skills. Read more about Pareto's interdisciplinary work and influence.

Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves (F. Ettarh, 2018)
*INSPIRED BY*
Though not cited in the chapter on Career Counseling (or written at the point the book was published), Ettarh's article on librarianship as a "calling" was brought to mind by a similar mention of work as a calling in the book. Upon being published in 2018, Ettarh's article became a major text in the field and gave your librarians a lot to think about.

An Ethnohistory of Amerindians in Guyana (Edwards & Gibson, 1979)
In the Rocket Science chapter, de Botton contrasts the building of the satellite with the Waiwai tribe of South America. This 1979 article discusses the Waiwai as well as other tribes of the region.
Edwards, W., & Gibson, K. (1979). An Ethnohistory of Amerindians in Guyana. Ethnohistory, 26(2), 161–175. https://doi.org/10.2307/481091

Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9780674286290
Publication Date: 2015-06-09
De Botton cites Emerson's 1844 essay "The Poet" in the Transmission Engineering chapter, on finding beauty in the industrial setting.

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street (H. Melville, 1853)
*INSPIRED BY*
Though not mentioned by de Botton, your librarians think it likely that Bartleby would find a lot in common with the setting of Accountancy, the chapter on office workers.

This postcard shows the plane at its finest, but de Botton saw one at the end of its usefulness in an airplane junkyard in the chapter Aviation.

Flight Daily News
Trade journal about aviation as mentioned in the chapter Aviation. Though de Botton finds trade journals to be "obscure", they play an important role in informing workers in the field of current events and trends, new products, and news.

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