This article is about the book. For the phenomenon, see bullshit job.
Bullshit Jobs
Author
David Graeber
Subject
Organizational culture, cultural anthropology
Published
May 2018 (Simon & Schuster)
Pages
368
ISBN
978-1-5011-4331-1
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth. Graeber describes five types of meaningless jobs, in which workers pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters. He argues that the association of labor with virtuous suffering is recent in human history and proposes unions and universal basic income as a potential solution.
The book is an extension of a popular essay Graeber published in 2013,[1] which was later translated into 12 languages and whose underlying premise became the subject of a YouGov poll. Graeber solicited hundreds of testimonials from workers with meaningless jobs and revised his essay's case into book form; Simon & Schuster published the book in May 2018.
^Graeber, David. "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant". Strike Magazine. Archived from the original on August 7, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
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