For most of us, work is the central,
dominating fact of life. We spend more than half our conscious hours at work,
preparing for work, traveling to and from work. What we do there largely
determines out standard of living and to a considerable extent the status we are
accorded by out fellow citizens as well. It is sometimes said that because
leisure has become more important the indignities and injustices of work can be
pushed into a comer; that because work is pretty intolerable, the people who do
it should compensate for its boredom, frustrations and humiliations by
concentrating their hopes on the other parts of their lives. I reject that as a
counsel of despair. For the foreseeable future the material and psychological
rewards which work can provide, and the conditions in which work is done, will
continue to play a vital part in determining the satisfa A. (A) the type of work they do B. (B) the place where they work C. (C) the time they spend at work D. (D) the mount of money they earn
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