Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By
David Graeber
Penguin
Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that
by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-
hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today,
average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now,
across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services
or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society- bullshit
jobs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this
phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th-century Soviet
Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has
happened. In doing so, he looks at how we value work, and how,
rather than being productive, 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.
Penguin

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