No more work why full employment is a bad idea / James Livingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingston, James, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--United States--Attitudes.

Employees.

Work--Social aspects--United States.

Work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

This work 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 stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labour, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance.

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.

Notes:

"This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908479-3-5

979-88-908479-4-2

1-4696-3066-4

1-4696-3067-2

OCLC:

958457991