Brad work. A Treatise on the Propagation of Senseless Labor

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Brad work. A Treatise on the Propagation of Senseless Labor

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Why do more and more people think they are doing meaningless work? In the spring of 2013, anthropologist David Graeber asked this question in a provocative essay titled "On the Phenomenon of Delusional Work." It went viral. Seven years later, people around the world continue to debate the answer to this question.
Graeber has written a book in which he explores one of the most annoying and profound moral problems of modern society - the transformation of work into a tedious, boring and useless nonsense. How many people think that their work does not bring any benefit? Why do employers believe that professions that are useful to society can be paid less, and more for useless work? Why, as a result of technological progress, we work not less, but more and more? Where is more useless work - in the public or in the private sector? And how can the delusionalization of the economy be stopped? Graeber shows what are the historical, social and political reasons for the spread of bullshit work. From feudalism to managerial culture, from the origins of bureaucracy to the development of the quaternary sector, from Thomas Carlyle to John Keynes and André Gortz, Graeber's research shows how our attitudes to work came about and how we can change them. This book is for anyone who wants to believe that work should have meaning.

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Publication language: Russian

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