Are you familiar with the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi?
In hi book *Flow* there is a chapter on work as flow. Actually much of the
book is about the way work can be experienced as a unifying, pleasurable
even ecstatic experience.
> At 05:11 AM 5/30/98 +0100, Robert Needham wrote:
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> > I'm searching for recent empirically based literature that
> >examines freedoms and constraints on fulfilling the need for
> >self-realization (or self-actualization) in waged work (and perhaps
> >unwaged domestic work),