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" Bullshit jobs : "
David Graeber.
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BL
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873070
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Graeber, David
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Bullshit jobs : : a theory /\ David Graeber.
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| Publication Statement
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[London, England] :: Penguin Books,, 2019.
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, ©2018
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xxv, 333 pages ;; 20 cm
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0141983477
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: 9780141983479
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Different subtitle on front cover.
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Originally published: 2018.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Preface: On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs -- What is a bullshit job? -- What sorts of bullshit jobs are there? -- Why do those in bullshit jobs regularly report themselves unhappy? -- What is it like to have a bullshit job? -- Why are bullshit jobs proliferating? -- Why do we as a society not object to the growth of pointless employment? -- What are the political effects of bullshit jobs, and is there anything that can be done about this situation?
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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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Labor.
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Work.
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Arbeitswelt
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Arbeitszufriedenheit
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Berufstätigkeit
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Labor.
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Sinnlosigkeit
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Sozioökonomischer Wandel
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Work.
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331
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HD4904
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Bullsh*t jobs :the rise of pointless work and what we can do about it
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