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These 100 introduction images come from the book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton, published by Penguin in April 2009.

Alongside the main 650 picture gallery, this edit covers the subjects and chapters covered in the book: Logistics; Accountancy; Electricity; Rocket Science; Biscuits; Tuna Fishing; Aviation; River Business and the unpublished Couture chapter.more »
  • A Royal Mail lorry speeds up the darkening M1 motorway loaded with parcels and letters. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • The form of a giant generic warehouse glows from ambient light at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bare trees without foliage are seen in the foreground on this cold winter night. We see the building low in the picture and the sky graduates from light into near darkness. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Red clock hangs from warehouse roof of cross-docking area of of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry By photographer Richard Baker
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  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Letters about to be sorted by the Royal Mail operated Siemens Integrated Mail Processor operated at Nine Elms sorting office By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Name badges await owners at a corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel, Docklands. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Squiggles and unreadable notes written on a whiteboard at an auditing companys's London headquarters By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Role-play and positive thinking at a counselling workshop held for company staff in Borough, Southwark. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Employees of an auditing stride along high on top floor walkways at the company's London headquarters. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Yellow sunflowers brighten up drab offices of an auditing company at their London headquarters By photographer Richard Baker
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  • A casually-dressed accountant works in a cluttered office cubicle in an auditing company's London headquarters. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Large arrows coloured red, green and yellow point north, west and east - or up, right and left - in three directions, to offer directions to seminars for accountants during their annual Academy Day held for 3,000 of company London employees at Excel in London's Docklands, England. The people are either confidently pacing forward, standing still to seek guidance or simply spontaneously emerging from the shadows to a brighter future, a moment when freedom of choice is offered and the road ahead dictates their fate. It is a scene of corporate theatre and each employee will attend this fair where motivational pep-talks from executives, outside speakers and gurus will talk to large groups of personnel so their presence on this day away from the office is vital for the year's business ahead. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Employees listen to an executive at their corporate rally day, held for 3,000 UK staff at Excel By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Lights from docklands and Canary Wharf glow in evening with South Bromley electricity substation, London. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Local and nationwide electricity power lines merging with golden reed grasses on Botany Marshes, Swanscombe, Kent. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Camouflaged birdspotters peer through binoculars for wildlife at the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Hidden in a wooden hut, a group of bird-spotting ornithologists peer through binoculars at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) rreserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex England. Watching dozens of wintering birds, the group are intensely looking through their optical equipment in anticipation of seeing rare breeds at this Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a wetland alongside the River Thames, 20 miles from Central London. A narrow slit is open to keep them hidden from sight so leaning on elbows and with a guide sheet in front to identify particular species, they concentrate on their hobby. The RSPB has 200 nature reserves covering almost 130,000 hectares, home to 80% of Britain's rarest or most threatened bird species. Its role is to speak out for birds and wildlife, tackling the problems that threaten the environment. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • The entrance to the RSPB's bird and wildlife reserve at Rainham Marshes, Essex. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • The steel girders of an electricity pylon stands close between housing on an estate in Beckton, East London. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • MDF board obscuring a blackboard advertising enterntainment in a closed pub on wasteland in Canning Town, Newham.. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Lady visitor to London's Theatreland gets directions from a passer-by beneath a Freddy Mercury outside the Dominion Theatre By photographer Richard Baker
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  • A passer-by stands outside a Chinese Restaurant offering Dim Sum in Chinatown, home to London's ethnic Chinese community. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • An electricity pylon stands amongst bare trees on a gloomy winter day in woodland near Wrington, North Somerset England. By photographer Richard Baker
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  • Dropped during construction of electricity pylons, a bolt and its nut lies on a forest floor, Clowes Wood, Chestfield, Kent By photographer Richard Baker
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