{"product_id":"copy-of-bullshit-jobs-the-rise-of-pointless-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-it","title":"Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It","description":"\u003cp\u003eBe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: in UK in 2019\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003ePages: 368\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9780141998435\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 0141983477\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Graeber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39696086958183,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/0141983477_f1a1a217-02fb-4113-99da-5581d77ee522.jpg?v=1650359529","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/copy-of-bullshit-jobs-the-rise-of-pointless-work-and-what-we-can-do-about-it","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}