Founders of the Anthropology of Work : German Social Scientists of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries and the First Ethnographers

Even today we can learn from older social scientists like Karl Marx, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, Karl Bcher, Eduard Hahn, Wilhelm Ostwald, and Max Weber. Comparing industrial and nonindustrial work, they were interested in the character of work as performance, play or ethical deed, and as rational action.