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  • Formaat: Hardback, 368 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 240x162x33 mm, kaal: 625 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2018
  • Kirjastus: Allen Lane
  • ISBN-10: 0241263883
  • ISBN-13: 9780241263884
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 368 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 240x162x33 mm, kaal: 625 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2018
  • Kirjastus: Allen Lane
  • ISBN-10: 0241263883
  • ISBN-13: 9780241263884
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'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones 'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times

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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Spectacular and terrifyingly true. David Graeber's theory of the broken capitalist workforce is right - work has become an end in itself. A timely book from the most provocative anthropologist and thinker of our time. -- Owen Jones Praise for The Democracy Project: 'Clear, pungent and right ... a compact and incisive account of why capitalism has run with such a smash into the buffers' * Times Higher Education * Graeber's talent is to take big concepts and unpack them, forcing us to examine their implications for society ... the book is a cool drink of water after so much dry, academic writing on the "revolutions" of 2011' * New Statesman * Captures the joys and fears of a movement * Observer * The most influential radical political thinker of the moment * New Yorker *

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Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.
Preface: On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs xiii
Chapter 1 What Is a Bullshit Job?
1(26)
Why a Mafia Hit Man Is Not a Good Example of a Bullshit Job
On the Importance of the Subjective Element, and Also, Why It Can Be Assumed That Those Who Believe They Have Bullshit Jobs Are Generally Correct
On the Common Misconception That Bullshit Jobs Are Confined Largely to the Public Sector
Why Hairdressers Are a Poor Example of a Bullshit Job
On the Difference Between Partly Bullshit Jobs, Mostly Bullshit Jobs, and Purely and Entirely Bullshit Jobs
Chapter 2 What Sorts of Bullshit Jobs Are There?
27(40)
The Five Major Varieties of Bullshit Jobs
1 What Flunkies Do
2 What Goons Do
3 What Duct Tapers Do
4 What Box Tickers Do
5 What Taskmasters Do
On Complex Multiform Bullshit Jobs
A Word on Second-Order Bullshit Jobs
A Final Note, with a Brief Return to the Question: Is It Possible to Have a Bullshit Job and Not Know It?
Chapter 3 Why Do Those in Bullshit Jobs Regularly Report Themselves Unhappy? (On Spiritual Violence, Part 1)
67(34)
About One Young Man Apparently Handed a Sinecure Who Nonetheless Found Himself Unable to Handle the Situation
Concerning the Experience of Falseness and Purposelessness at the Core of Bullshit Jobs, and the Importance Now Felt of Conveying the Experience of Falseness and Purposelessness to Youth
Why Many of Our Fundamental Assumptions on Human Motivation Appear to Be Incorrect
A Brief Excursus on the History of Make-Work, and Particularly of the Concept of Buying Other People's Time
Concerning the Clash Between the Morality of Time and Natural Work Rhythms, and the Resentment It Creates
Chapter 4 What It It Like to Have a Bullshit Job? [ On Spiritual Violence, Part 2)
101(44)
Why Having a Bullshit Job Is Not Always Necessarily That Bad
On the Misery of Ambiguity and Forced Pretense
On the Misery of Not Being a Cause
On the Misery of Not Feeling Entitled to One's Misery
On the Misery of Knowing That One Is Doing Harm
Coda: On the Effects of Bullshit Jobs on Human Creativity, and On Why Attempts to Assert Oneself Creatively or Politically Against Pointless Employment Might Be Considered a Form of Spiritual Warfare
Chapter 5 Why Are Bullshit Jobs Proliferating?
145(48)
A Brief Excursus on Causality and the Nature of Sociological Explanation
Sundry Notes on the Role of Government in Creating and Maintaining Bullshit Jobs
Concerning Some False Explanations for the Rise of Bullshit Jobs
Why the Financial Industry Might Be Considered a Paradigm for Bullshit Job Creation
On Some Ways in Which the Current Form of Managerial Feudalism Resembles Classical Feudalism, and Other Ways in Which It Does Not
How Managerial Feudalism Manifests Itself in the Creative Industries through an Endless Multiplication of Intermediary Executive Ranks
Conclusion, with a Brief Return to the Question of Three Levels of Causation
Chapter 6 Why Do We as a Society Not Object to the Growth of Pointless Employment?
193(52)
On the Impossibility of Developing an Absolute Measure of Value
How Most People in Contemporary Society Do Accept the Notion of a Social Value That Can Be Distinguished from Economic Value, Even If It Is Very Difficult to Pin Down What It Is
Concerning the Inverse Relationship Between the Social Value of Work and the Amount of Money One Is Likely to Be Paid for It
On the Theological Roots of Our Attitudes Toward Labor
On the Origins of the Northern European Notion of Paid Labor as Necessary to the Full Formation of an Adult Human Being
How, with the Advent of Capitalism, Work Came to Be Seen in Many Quarters Either as a Means of Social Reform or Ultimately as a Virtue in Its Own Right, and How Laborers Countered by Embracing the Labor Theory of Value
Concerning the Key Flaw in the Labor Theory of Value as It Became Popular in the Nineteenth Century, and How the Owners of Capital Exploited That Flaw
How, over the Course of the Twentieth Century, Work Came to Be Increasingly Valued Primarily as a Form of Discipline and Self-Sacrifice
Chapter 7 What Are the Political Effects of Bullshit Jobs, and Is There Anything That Can Be Done About This Situation?
245(42)
On How the Political Culture under Managerial Feudalism Comes to Be Maintained by a Balance of Resentments
How the Current Crisis over Robotization Relates to the Larger Problem of Bullshit Jobs
On the Political Ramifications of Bullshitization and Consequent Decline of Productivity in the Caring Sector as It Relates to the Possibility of a Revolt of the Caring Classes
On Universal Basic Income as an Example of a Program That Might Begin to Detach Work from Compensation and Put an End to the Dilemmas Described in This Book
Acknowledgments 287(2)
Notes 289(38)
Bibliography 327
David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, 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.