No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
why full employment is a bad idea
$57.75
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
27 October 2016
Summary
For centuries we’ve believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance-in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself.
In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781469630656 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1469630656 |
| Author: | James Livingston |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 27 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
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Unrivaled … in its audacity and brashness, all in a delightfully amusing little essay that is guaranteed to delight undergrads and provoke them to question their individual collective future. Highly recommended.–Choice Pack[s] a verbal blow against all those–on the Right and the Left–who continue to kneel in adoration in the Chapel of Work.–Dissident Voices Livingston is at his most persuasive as a historian.–Public Books
About The Author
James Livingston
James Livingston is professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of five other books on topics ranging from the Federal Reserve System to South Park.
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