Question 1. from the design brief

Why do people work?

People work as a necessity to earn money to live. It it through money that we can provide food, housing, clothes and so on, and so from this satisfaction comes job satisfaction. 

However with most societies they (supposedly) provide a welfare system to ensure that citizens welfare does not fall below the basic level of survival. So in some cases is there really a demand to work? 

Unemployment benefit, housing allowances, and free medical care were specifically designed as a safety net preventing people from becoming poor and needy.

This is the main example of the government stepping in so as not to let the public solely rely on market forces. 

Politicians have previously argued that these implemented systems could be a deterrent for people to work, as it provides a supposedly satisfactory standard of living. It has also been proven that someone could undertake a weeks worth of low paid work, in employment and still receive less than some people would by claiming benefits. 

As you can see it is not technically necessary to work in todays society. Therefore you could say that people work to generate money, to gain consumer power. The main difference between the employed and the unemployed is that the employed have more consumer power and so more control over their choice of lifestyle. 

And so given the important link between work and spending power, it is hardly surprising that when asked, most people will say that earning money is the prime reason they work (or want to work in the case of the unemployed.)  

Bibliography:

Noon, M (1997). The realities of work. London: Palgrave McMillan.