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

Livingston, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469630656 ISBN 13: 9781469630656

Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR, 2016

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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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1469630656
• ISBN 13: 9781469630656
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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