Documentary

Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World

In his latest book and this three-part series, investigative journalist Jacques Peretti strays into Adam Curtis territory. What if the way we understand our world is wrong, he wonders, and it’s not so much politicians who govern our lives but business deals done in secret, in the boardroom and on the golf course?

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Returning Series

Original Name

Billion Dollar Deals and How They Changed Your World

First Air Date

September 27, 2017

Last Air Date

October 11, 2017

Seasons

1

Episodes

3

Language

English

Production Companies

Networks

BBC Two

S01E03

Work

Jacques Peretti investigates how we went from clocking on and off to checking our work email in the middle of the night and working four jobs simultaneously. How did work go from being what we do to who we are? From the creation of shared values in the workplace in the 1980s to the deal that ushered in inflated executive pay and zero job security, Jacques reveals how key decisions over the past decades have revolutionised the workplace and our perception of work itself. He also looks at automation in the workplace. But will the age of the robot make our working lives easier or make us redundant as a species?

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