'desultory' in The Making of the English Working Class

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(adjective) marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose / (adjective) not connected with the main subject / (adjective) disappointing in progress, performance, or quality

‘in training human beings to renounce their desultory habits of work, and to identify themselves with the unvarying regularity of the complex automaton’

—p.360 The Transforming Power of the Cross (350) by E.P. Thompson

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desultory (en)

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

desultory (en)

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson

The Making of the English Working Class
by E.P. Thompson