作者：DavidGraeber
出版社：Simon&Schuster
副标题：ATheory
原作名：DavidGraeber
出版年：2018-5-15
页数：368
定价：USD16.20
装帧：平装
ISBN：9781501143311
内容简介
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From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.
There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.
Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation.
作者简介
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David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; born 12 February 1961) is a London-based anthropologist and anarchist activist, perhaps best known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years. He is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.
As an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998–2007 he specialised in theories of value and social theory. The university's decision not to rehire him when he would otherwise have become eligible for tenure sparked an academic controversy, and a petition with more than 4,500 signatures. He went on to become, from 2007–13, Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
His activism includes protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, and the 2002 World Economic Forum in New York City. Graeber was a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is sometimes credited with having coined the slogan, "We are the 99 percent".
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从作者人类学的视角，我们的工作都可以归为他总结的flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters，bullshit jobs, 但青年马克思那个对劳动的变异反而更启发人。当下教育的问题是把工作跟赚钱划等号了，其实人对劳动有本能的需求，人需要通过劳动来创造，产出更丰富的生命意义。变异后的works，成了jobs，一条通往奴役之路。跳…
这本书能火的原因，大概在于，作者抓住了大多数人都不喜欢自己工作的心理，为大家找到了一个情绪宣泄的出口；然而难以忽略的是，这本书无论是对现象的观察，原因的陈述，还是解决方案的倡议，都站不住脚。书中唯一的一个有意思的地方，自己之前也观察到却难以解释的：越是对社会有贡献的工作，比如护士、老师、清洁工、消防员等工资越低，而那些对社会没有太大贡献，甚至带来伤害的工作，比如银行家、营销人员、说客等等，工资反而…
我重点看了一章对bullshit job的分类，发现自己落入了taskmaster
两年前断断续续读过，没有格雷伯其他著作那么引人入胜。但今年疫情期间也显露出他的洞见一点都没有夸张。也是本来想打四星，翻完短评报复性打五星，何况是今天得知他离世的消息，哭。
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