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No more work : why full employment is a bad idea / James Livingston.

by Livingston, James, 1949-

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The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Work -- Social aspects.

Employees -- United States -- Attitudes.

9781469630656 (hc.)

xiv, 111 pages ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

The family assistance plan and the end of work -- Labor and the essence of man -- Love and work in the shadow of the reformation -- After work.

"For 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. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. 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. 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. James Livingston has taught history at Rutgers since 1988. He's the author of five books, beginning with Origins of the Federal Reserve System (1986), on topics in economic, intellectual, social, and cultural history."--Provided by publisher.

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