The Resource No more work : why full employment is a bad idea, James Livingston
No more work : why full employment is a bad idea, James Livingston
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The item No more work : why full employment is a bad idea, James Livingston represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 111 pages)
- Note
- "This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
- Contents
-
- The family assistance plan and the end of work
- Labor and the essence of man
- Love and work in the shadow of the reformation
- After work
- Isbn
- 9781469630670
- Label
- No more work : why full employment is a bad idea
- Title
- No more work
- Title remainder
- why full employment is a bad idea
- Statement of responsibility
- James Livingston
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- P@U
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Livingston, James
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Employees
- Work
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Employees
- Work
- United States
- Label
- No more work : why full employment is a bad idea, James Livingston
- Note
- "This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The family assistance plan and the end of work -- Labor and the essence of man -- Love and work in the shadow of the reformation -- After work
- Control code
- ocn958457991
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 111 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781469630670
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt1bnk2js
- 695438a2-5569-4036-bc35-6011ab5333fb
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958457991
- Label
- No more work : why full employment is a bad idea, James Livingston
- Note
- "This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The family assistance plan and the end of work -- Labor and the essence of man -- Love and work in the shadow of the reformation -- After work
- Control code
- ocn958457991
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 111 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781469630670
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt1bnk2js
- 695438a2-5569-4036-bc35-6011ab5333fb
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958457991
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