The key answer of exercise 2
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - The daily grind for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education
Question
Read the article quickly. What does it say about question 2 above?
Answer
According to the article, work has changed a lot over the last 1,000 years.
Pre-industrial age → people worked for food and goods necessary for survival; work structured by seasons; whole communities worked together; less division between 'work' and 'free time'; people worked for money; work was structured by the clock; there is a clear division between 'work' and 'free time'.
Now → the workplace has become a social community; many people work flexible hours; now we often work from home.
Similarities → the overall attitude to work - we work because we have to but we miss it if we don’t (as implied by the title).