Description
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 showingus that we can afford to leave that world behind.
About the Author
James Livingston is professor of history at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of five other books on topics ranging from the Federal Reserve System to South Park.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469630656
Author James Livingston
Format Hardback
Page Count 128
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press