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Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society- bullshit jobs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th-century Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how we value work, and how, rather than being productive, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it.
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Bullshit jobs, David Graeber
- Language
- Released
- 2019
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
- Price
- €9.39
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- Title
- Bullshit jobs
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Graeber
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0141983477
- ISBN13
- 9780141983479
- Series
- Tags
- Business, Philosophical Topics, Politics, Gifts for grandpa, Society, Employment, Criticism, Capitalism
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society- bullshit jobs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th-century Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how we value work, and how, rather than being productive, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it.