Bullshit Jobs: A Treatise on the Spread of Pointless Labor
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Bullshit Jobs: A Treatise on the Spread of Pointless Labor
19.99 €
Why do more and more people think they are engaged in meaningless work? In the spring of 2013, anthropologist David Graeber posed this question in a provocative essay titled "On the Phenomenon of Delusional Work." It went viral. Seven years later, people around the world are still debating the answer to that question.
Graeber has written a book in which he explores one of the most vexing and profound moral problems in modern society - the transformation of labor into tedious, boring, and unnecessary nonsense. How many people feel that their labor is of no benefit? Why do employers believe that it is possible to pay less for jobs that are useful to society and more for useless labor? Why are we working more and more, not less, as a result of technological advances? Where is there more useless work - in the public or private sector? And how can we stop the delusionalization of the economy? Graeber shows what are the historical, social, and political causes of the spread of work delusion. From feudalism to managerial culture, from the origins of bureaucracy to the development of the quaternary sector, from Thomas Carlyle to John Keynes to André Gorz, Graeber's study shows how our attitudes to labor emerged and how we can change them. This book is for anyone who wants to believe that labor should have meaning.
Graeber has written a book in which he explores one of the most vexing and profound moral problems in modern society - the transformation of labor into tedious, boring, and unnecessary nonsense. How many people feel that their labor is of no benefit? Why do employers believe that it is possible to pay less for jobs that are useful to society and more for useless labor? Why are we working more and more, not less, as a result of technological advances? Where is there more useless work - in the public or private sector? And how can we stop the delusionalization of the economy? Graeber shows what are the historical, social, and political causes of the spread of work delusion. From feudalism to managerial culture, from the origins of bureaucracy to the development of the quaternary sector, from Thomas Carlyle to John Keynes to André Gorz, Graeber's study shows how our attitudes to labor emerged and how we can change them. This book is for anyone who wants to believe that labor should have meaning.
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