{"product_id":"no-more-work-why-full-employment-is-a-bad-idea-paperback-softback-9781469692081","title":"No More Work; Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea (Paperback \/ softback) 9781469692081","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNo More Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWhy Full Employment Is a Bad Idea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames Livingston (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781469692081\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e128 pages, notes\u003cbr\u003e12.7 x 17.8 x 1.4 cm, 0.136 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unrivaled . . . in its audacity and brashness, all in a delightfully amusing little essay that is guaranteed to delight undergrads and provoke them to question their individual collective future. Highly recommended.\" — \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Pack[s] a verbal blow against all those — on the Right and the Left — who continue to kneel in adoration in the Chapel of Work.\" — \u003ci\u003eDissident Voices\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Livingston is at his most persuasive as a historian. . . . \u003ci\u003eNo More Work\u003c\/i\u003e seek[s] to solve the problem of work through resource redistribution rather than by inviting readers to hack their own lives. \" — \u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance — in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702511300888,"sku":"9781469692081","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/no-more-work-why-full-employment-is-a-bad-idea-paperback-softback-9781469692081","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}