Gilman argues that much human suffering comes from false ideas about why people work. Treating society as a living organism, she contends that work is a social function, done because society needs commerce, art and industry, and not a private struggle for survival or gain, and she dismantles the concepts that keep people from seeing it.
A bold 1904 work of social theory by the author of The Yellow Wallpaper and Women and Economics. Download the free EPUB.