Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.
David Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. His many books include The Utopia of Rules, The Democracy Project and the bestselling Debt- The First 5,000 Years. A frequent guest on the BBC, he writes for, among others, the Guardian, Strike!, the Baffler and New Left Review. He lives in London.
Spectacular and terrifyingly true. David Graeber's theory of the
broken capitalist workforce is right - work has become an end in
itself. A timely book from the most provocative anthropologist and
thinker of our time.
*Owen Jones*
Praise for The Democracy Project: 'Clear, pungent and right ... a
compact and incisive account of why capitalism has run with such a
smash into the buffers'
*Times Higher Education*
Graeber's talent is to take big concepts and unpack them, forcing
us to examine their implications for society ... the book is a cool
drink of water after so much dry, academic writing on the
"revolutions" of 2011'
*New Statesman*
Captures the joys and fears of a movement
*Observer*
The most influential radical political thinker of the moment
*New Yorker*
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