Why Humans Work: How Jobs Shape Our Lives and Our World
May 2022 · Orca Think Book 6 · Orca Book Publishers
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Key Selling Points
- This book explores the history of work; work versus play; why we have the jobs, careers and professions that we do; work-life balance and what future careers could look like.
- Work is a universal topic: there are almost 3.5 billion people working in the world today.
- Addresses key issues in the working world today including inequality, discrimination, child labor, slavery, the role of privilege and how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the world of work.
- Kids work! Their first introduction to the working world starts with homework.
- Includes profiles of all kinds of workers, including a professional clown, a milkman, a neurologist, a plumber and a screenwriter.
About the author
Monique Polak is the author of more than 30 books for young people. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and YA Literature for her novels Hate Mail, What World is Left and Room for One More. In addition to teaching at Marianopolis College in Montreal, Monique is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean’s Magazine, the Montreal Gazette and other Postmedia newspapers. She is also a columnist on ICI Radio-Canada’s Plus on est de fous, plus on lit! In 2016 Monique was the CBC/Quebec Writers’ Federation inaugural writer-inresidence. Monique lives in Montreal.
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