{"product_id":"9781469630656","title":"No More Work : Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, 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. The result is 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 showingus that we can afford to leave that world behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52570538017079,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":140.86,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9781469630656","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}