ABSTRACT

Conceivably, examining the connection of work to personal QOL suggests an easy case for their zero-sum relationship: the more we work, the less QOL we have. Work’s toll on our bodies, consumption of our waking hours, and contamination of our solace are historic burdens that persist into the present day. Who cannot recognize to some degree the experience described in the 1730 British poem, “The Thresher’s Labour” (quoted in Jordan 2003:80)?