No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea - Couverture rigide

Livingston, James

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1469630656 ISBN 13 : 9781469630656

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

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 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 showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469630656
• ISBN 13: 9781469630656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
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• Personne responsable: non disponible