No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781469692081)

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 must be stealing from someone. According to such pieties, if you truly 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. Here, James Livingston explains why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem, resulting in a witty, stirring denunciation of the way we have always thought about why we labor. No More Work exhorts us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world.

Author: James Livingston
ISBN-10: 1469692082
ISBN-13: 9781469692081
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2025
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 6.00h x 9.00w x 0.50d