No More Work
Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
James Livingston
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2016
Pages: 128
Subject: Business and Economics
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469630670
DESCRIPTION
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.