Identify a specific type of work and outline the nature

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Case Study: In this assignment, you are asked to respond to a statement concerning work that may challenge current assumptions but encourage you to connect ideas and information (CCS Creative thinking) to test the statement. In working through this statement, you will demonstrate how you evaluate relationships, patterns and trends about the changing nature of work to generate wider insights (CCS Sense-making).

"If you ask [the actual worker] what he thinks the best part of his life, he is not likely to say, "I enjoy manual work because it makes me feel that I am fulfilling man's noblest task, and because I like to think how much man can transform his planet. It is true that my body demands periods of rest, which I have to fill in as best I may, but I am never so happy as when the morning comes and I can return to the toil from which my contentment springs."
-Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness.

Questions: Discuss the statement above with reference to a type of work that you consider to be significant. You should also make reference to ONE relevant theory (John Locke, Karl Marx or Émile Durkheim).

a) Identify a specific type of work and outline the nature of this work.
b) Describe the current social and economic context of the type of work you have chosen and show its impact on our society - whether socially, culturally, technologically or economically.
c) Explain how the statement above applies to this type of work. You must also use ONE relevant theory from this course (i.e. John Locke, Karl Marx, or Émile Durkheim) to help you discuss about the meaning and value of labour in this type of work.
d) Discuss how automation would impact this type of work. Your discussion should focus on the worker and the work they do.
e) Articulate your ideas clearly and grammatically. Include proper in-text citations and references.

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