Human Work

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Human Work

Human Work

Table of Contents

I: INTRODUCTORY. Summary

I. INTRODUCTORY

II: MAN AS A FACTOR IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION. Summary

II. MAN AS A FACTOR IN SOCIAL EVOLUTION

III: CONCEPT AND CONDUCT. Summary

III. CONCEPT AND CONDUCT

IV: SOME FALSE CONCEPTS. Summary

IV. SOME FALSE CONCEPTS

V: THE NATURE OF SOCIETY (I) Summary

V. THE NATURE OF SOCIETY (I)

VI: THE NATURE OF SOCIETY (II) Summary

VI. THE NATURE OF SOCIETY (II)

VII: THE SOCIAL SOUL. Summary

VII. THE SOCIAL SOUL

VIII: THE SOCIAL BODY. Summary

VIII. THE SOCIAL BODY

IX: THE NATURE OF WORK (I) Summary

IX. THE NATURE OF WORK (I)

X: THE NATURE OF WORK (II) Summary

X. THE NATURE OF WORK (II)

XI: SPECIALISATION. Summary

XI. SPECIALISATION

XII: PRODUCTION. Summary

XII. PRODUCTION

XIII: DISTRIBUTION. Summary

XIII. DISTRIBUTION

XIV: CONSUMPTION (I) Summary

XIV. CONSUMPTION (I)

XV: CONSUMPTION (II) Summary

XV. CONSUMPTION (II)

XVI: OUR POSITION TO-DAY. Summary

XVI. OUR POSITION TO-DAY

XVII: THE TRUE POSITION. Summary

XVII. THE TRUE POSITION

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Published by Good Press, 2021

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That superstitious respect for the aged which distinguishes China is giving way to a respect for wisdom, for knowledge, for judgment, and ability wherever manifested; and if we swing too far toward honour for the young, it is a healthy extreme to counterbalance the huge and heavy back action of the past. The mind of man is now being opened to perceptions of facts as he finds them, rather than the retention of old stories, and is exercised more in free, responsible action during its early years.

We are beginning to learn now something of the true history of our race—what we rose from, and how we have risen; what forces urged us most, what conditions helped us most. We are seeing with increasing clearness the desirable lines of action, and how best to follow them. Alert, intelligent, and active among the great currents of social evolution, we can do much to promote their effects. Here we can let them alone, there we can oppose our allied wills against some eddy of reversionary tendency, or check the growth of some disadvantageous excess; we can use our consciousness to choose between the varying forces, and such individual power as we possess to steer among them.

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