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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
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- Titel
- Bullshit Jobs
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- David Graeber
- Uitgever
- Simon & Schuster
- ISBN10
- 9936986032
- ISBN13
- 9789936986039
- Reeks
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- Non-fictie, Sociale Wetenschappen, Handel, Business & Management, Politicologie & Politiek, Filosofisch thema, Filosofie, Politiek, Economie, Cadeaus voor Opa, Sociologie, Samenleving, Antropologie, Arbeid, Kritiek, Kapitalisme
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- 4,05 van 5
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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.