In the book Job Shift, published last year, the American author William Bridges points out that in the agricultural society of the pre-19th century, most people had no particular position, nor did they get a fixed salary from any employer.
去年出版的《新工作潮》一書中，美籍作者威廉．布里吉斯指出，十九世紀之前的農業社會，一般人並沒有固定的一份職位，也不會向固定的雇主領一份薪水。