{"product_id":"bullshit-jobs","title":"Bullshit jobs","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society: bullshit jobs. David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th-century Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how we value work, and how, rather than being productive, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44434858377367,"sku":"9780141983479","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9857\/1159\/files\/9780141983479.jpg?v=1720539206","url":"https:\/\/bookbag.mom\/products\/bullshit-jobs","provider":"Bookbag Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}