Bullshit Jobs

L'anarchisme, en tant que philosophie politique, est en plein essor. De fondement de l'organisation dans le mouvement altermondialiste qu'ils étaient, les principes anarchistes traditionnels autonomie, association volontaire, autogestion, entraide, démocratie directe en sont venus à jouer ce rôle dans des mouvements radicaux de toutes sortes dans le monde entier. Et pourtant, cela n'a eu presque aucun écho dans le milieu universitaire. Les anarchistes interrogent souvent les anthropologues sur leurs idées quant aux diverses façons d'organiser la société sur des bases plus égalitaires, moins aliénantes. Les anthropologues, terrifiés à l'idée de se voir accusés de romantisme, n'ont pour seule réponse que leur silence. Et s'il en était autrement?

'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesFT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 and CITY AM BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.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 materialised, 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. 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.

Et si la dette était plus vieille que la monnaie elle-même ? Dans un livre devenu capital et best-seller dans plusieurs pays, David Graeber bat en brèche toutes nos idées préconçues sur la dette. Une réédition en format poche à l'occasion de la sortie de Il n'y a jamais eu d'Occident, le recueil de ses essais et entretiens inédits.