Abstract
The Second World War had created an upheaval in the way people worked. Millions of servicemen had moved out of full-time jobs into the armed forces. Millions of men and women in the occupied countries had been subjected to forced labor. Millions of people had tasted something different in their lives that would change their attitudes irreversibly. Men had labored in prison camps and in the jungle, women had done men’s work and had done it well.
We do what we are and we are what we do.
(Abraham Maslow, 1908–70)
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Henry C. Metcalf and Lyndall Urwick, eds., Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, 1940, New York: Harper & Row, 1940, p. 80.
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Donkin, R. (2010). The Wanting Animal. In: The History of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282179_17
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