■ Born in Indonesia in 1930, as a small child I already exhibited an interest in animals, perhaps stimulated by my first conscious observation. When I was 3 or 4 years old our gardener unearthed a nest of young black snakes, then told me to leave. So at my 6th birthday my parents presented me with Huey’s book De dierenwereld in een notedop 1935. This book became my bible and determined my futur...

Work has been at the core of occupational therapy for the last seven and a half decades. The tenets of work, which include providing a way of making a living and giving meaning to one's existence, have remained consistent throughout occupational therapists' use of work in the treatment of physical disabilities during three eras: World Wars I and II, the era of industrial therapy, and the work-h...

This paper reexamines an old question: what is work and why do we do it? A straightforward ’economic’ answer is that work is any time activity for which we receive a positive wage, but this begs the question which activities command a positive wage. Now the answer depends on market level considerations such as the available technology and the joint distribution of preferences and skills in the ...