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This afternoon, Laurie Taylor looks at these questions: 

Work: What is it good for? 

Laurie Taylor presents a special programme which takes a provocative look at work as a cultural norm. 

Josh Cohen, Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, considers the joys of inertia - of being rather than doing; 

Andrea Komlosy, Professor in the Department of Economics and Social History at the University of Vienna, probes the debate about work as burdensome toil versus work as creative expression; and 

Anthony Lloyd, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University, examines workplace harms in the service sector. 

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