Bullshit Jobs

Why do more and more people believe they are engaged in meaningless work? In the spring of 2013, anthropologist David Graeber (1961–2020) posed this question in a provocative essay titled «On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs». It went viral. Since... then, people around the world continue to discuss the answer to this question.
Graeber wrote a book in which he explores one of the most frustrating and profound moral problems of modern society – the transformation of labor into exhausting, boring, and unnecessary nonsense. How many people feel that their work is of no use? Why do employers think that they can pay less for socially useful professions and more for useless work? Why, as a result of technological progress, do we work not less but more? Where is there more useless work – in the public or private sector? And how can we stop the bullshitification of the economy?
Graeber shows the historical, social, and political reasons for the spread of bullshit jobs. Drifting from feudalism to managerial culture, from the origins of bureaucracy to the development of the quaternary sector, from Thomas Carlyle to John Maynard Keynes and André Gorz, Graeber's study illustrates how our attitude towards work was formed and how it can be changed. This book is for anyone who wants to believe that work should have meaning.

Author: ГРЕБЕР

Printhouse: Ad Marginem

Series: Sociology. David Graeber

Year of publication: 2022

ISBN: 9785911036294

Number of pages: 368

Size: 20 x 14.5 x 2.4 mm

Cover type: Мягкая бумажная

Weight: 370 g

ID: 1290553

Why do more and more people believe they are engaged in meaningless work? In the spring of 2013, anthropologist David Graeber (1961–2020) posed this question in a provocative essay titled «On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs». It went viral. Since then, people around the world continue to discuss the answer to this question.
Graeber wrote a book in which he explores one of the most frustrating and profound moral problems of modern society – the transformation of labor into exhausting, boring, and unnecessary nonsense. How many people feel that their work is of no use? Why do employers think that they can pay less for socially useful professions and more for useless work? Why, as a result of technological progress, do we work not less but more? Where is there more useless work – in the public or private sector? And how can we stop the bullshitification of the economy?
Graeber shows the historical, social, and political reasons for the spread of bullshit jobs. Drifting from feudalism to managerial culture, from the origins of bureaucracy to the development of the quaternary sector, from Thomas Carlyle to John Maynard Keynes and André Gorz, Graeber's study illustrates how our attitude towards work was formed and how it can be changed. This book is for anyone who wants to believe that work should have meaning.