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Today three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don´t seem to do anything, to add anything to society: bullshit jobs. David Graeber looks at how we value work, and how, rather than being productive, work has become an end in itself; the profound moral and psychological violence created by being trapped in meaningless work; and, finally, how we can get out of it.

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´Spectacular and terrifyingly true´ Owen Jones
´Explosive´ John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year
´Thought-provoking and funny´ The Times

Be 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.

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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

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Graeber, David
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.

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