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40%的工作沒意義, 為什麼還搶著做? 論狗屁工作的出現與勞動價值的再思

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內容簡介 狗屁工作的蔓延與膨脹如同病毒，充塞在我們社會的每一個角落。 沒有什麼比自己的工作從根本上就無用、對這個世界毫無貢獻更讓人沮喪的了。 恐怖的是，這是多數人所面臨的命運…… 敬告全體冗員：廢的不是你，是那些毫無價值的狗屁工作！★ 德國亞馬遜政治及社會學類、政治經濟類排行榜第一名 ☆ 德國時代週報選書 ★ 美國亞馬遜財金類排行榜第一名 ☆ 英國亞馬遜經濟類排行榜第一名 ★ 法國亞馬遜政治、企業投資類排行榜第一名 狂掃多國亞馬遜排行榜 No.1，報刊媒體瘋狂熱議，全球社畜含淚推薦 《債的歷史》大衛．格雷伯最新力作，顛覆你對工作的想像！ 「《狗屁工作》是現代職場的大揭露，充滿各行各業從業人員真心告白。「涼差」不一定是「爽缺」，無所事事的工作不只是「廢」，員工還得費力假裝忙碌，瞎忙於一些瑣碎無聊的細節。這一類的狗屁工作誤國誤民，有時還帶來更例如金融海嘯的災難。」──何明修，臺灣大學社會學系教授 ◆ 為何這份工作明明爛透了，卻無法說出口？ ◇ 強調效率利益至上的私營企業，冗員數竟然會比公部門還多？ ◆ 「怨人有，笑人無」的全球民粹反智氛圍，居然也跟工作有關？ 工作好無聊！這工作根本就是狗屁，有做沒做哪有差！你是不是也這樣怒吼千百次了？1930 年凱因斯曾預言，科技發展將讓人類工時變短，但這個願景並未實現：全世界發明了各式各樣叫不出名堂的「服務性」職業，各種諮詢、顧問、仲介、行政……根據統計，竟有高達 40% 的人在做這類工作。受訪者對自己工作的枯燥乏味感到絕望，感覺不出自身貢獻，「少了我根本沒差」。 上述「狗屁工作論」的發想源自 2013 年格雷伯一篇網路刊文。該文一推出後轟動全球，兩周內轉發逾百萬次，更在短時間內被譯成十幾種語言，甚至驚動主流財經媒體為文回應。全世界各地人士紛紛寄信給格雷伯，分享自身的狗屁工作經驗，讓他決定擴大該文篇幅，撰寫成一本書。本書中他援引諸多真實案例，將數年來的觀察、研究與反思悉數呈現。他舉出狗屁工作的五大類型，分析職員無可奈何的困頓心態，更回到歷史追溯資本社會及馬克思勞動價值論隱含的瑕疵，探討此類工作大量增生之因，以及為何政府不去遏止這類現象。他認為，狗屁工作貶抑了人的存在價值，更助長了當前社會反智民粹對立。狗屁工作是理解當代社會病徵的一個重要現象，所有人都應該正視這個從來沒人願意好好關注的問題。承繼他的犀利風格，本書將再度扭轉既定觀念，是新時代必讀的工作思維書。本書介出自商周出版《40%的工作沒意義, 為什麼還搶著做? 論狗屁工作的出現與勞動價值的再思 》'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 David Graeber 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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