No More Work : Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea

James Livingston

ISBN 10: 1469630656 / ISBN 13: 9781469630656

Published by University Of North Carolina Press Okt 2016, 2016

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Neuware - 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 explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world and showingus that we can afford to leave that world behind.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No More Work : Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina Press Okt 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469630656
• ISBN 13: 9781469630656
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 185W x 131H x 17D millimeters 185 millimeters width by 131 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 206 grams

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Synopsis

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 must be stealing from someone. According to such pieties, if you truly 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. Here, James Livingston explains why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem, resulting in a witty, stirring denunciation of the way we have always thought about why we labor. No More Work exhorts us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world.

About the Author

James Livingston is professor emeritus 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.