Illustrations and text explore the working lives of peasants, kings, merchants, and builders through 10,000 years of civilization, describing how new jobs were created, how tools were made, and how the work force changed throughout history.
In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a gruelling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.
On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.
Presents a discussion of the value of working with one's hands in order to connect intellect with the material world, and examines the divide between thinking and doing that began with the assembly line and can be bridged through self-reliance and concrete living.
An hour by hour look at some night workers in a city that never sleeps, including fire fighters, a museum night watchman, musicians, and newspaper pressmen.
After wishing there were two of him to complete all the items on his "to do" list, Leo discovers that the real problem is not the number of Leos, but the length of the list.
