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Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It

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By (author): David Graeber

'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones
'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year
'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times

FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 and CITY AM BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.

In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, 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.

This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 270g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Feb 2019
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141983479

About David Graeber

David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of among others The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Debt: The First 5000 Years Bullshit Jobs: A Theory and Pirate Enlightenment and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine the Guardian and the Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist his early efforts helped to make Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on 2 September 2020.

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