

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">In the early
twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working
fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious
happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialized, but average working
hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed
world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance, or admin: jobs that
don^t seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but
which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he
looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself;
the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and,
finally, how we can get out of it.</span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="account-name"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">This book is for
anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes
^workshops^ should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there
might be a better way to run our world.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></strong><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">About the Author</span></strong></p><span class="account-name"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US">David
Graeber</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-US"> was born on 12 February 1961, in New York, United
States. He was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His
influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The
First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs, and his leading role in the Occupy
movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and
left-wing thinkers of his time. He died on 2 September 2020, in Venice, Italy.</span></span>