The Industrial Revolution and the Future of Work

The Industrial Revolution completely changes how we understand labor. In the 19th century you have writers like Henry David Thoreau who are mourning the loss of this bucolic world of agricultural labor which seemed timeless to them. Now work is no longer connected to the cycle of the seasons, it's not connected to anything that our ancestors did. It's become a giant railway train that's just like bearing down on us from the future and belching smoke"