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No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
James Livingston
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Hardback. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469630656
SKU
V9781469630656
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Ref
99-48
About James Livingston
James Livingston is professor 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.
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