Bullshit, like paper waste, accumulates in offices with the inevitability of February snow. Justification reports: What are these? Nobody knows. And yet they pile up around you, Xerox-warmed, to be not-read. Best-practices documents? Anybody’s guess, really, including their authors’. Some people thought that digitization would banish this nonsense.

Articles

Is Your Job Bullshit? On Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
David Graeber had a hypothesis. The anthropologist grew up working-class in New York, and while his scholarship garnered accolades, he’s never felt at home in the world of academia.

Radio: on the meaning & meaningless of our bullshit jobs
This is Hell Radio

How Useful Is the Aggressive Fare Enforcement of Link Light Rail?
The one, possibly only thing, I dislike about Vancouver BC's SkyTrain is that it's completely run by machines. I have used the system over 100 times in the downtown area, and only once have seen a human working at a station as an employee of the rail system.

Punching the Clock
Harper’s Magazine

Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone
I would like to write about the bullshitization of academic life: that is, the degree to which those involved in teaching and academic management spend more and more of their time involved in tasks which they secretly — or not so secretly — believe to be entirely pointless.
Videos

On Bullshit Jobs
at the RSA

David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs
Penguin Books UK
Memorials
by David Charles
David Graeber, author of one of the most influential books I’ve ever read—Debt: The First 5,000 Years—died earlier this week.
Updates
David Graeber: I would like this book to be an arrow aimed at the heart of our civilisation
By Mary Tracy In 2013 David Graeber told the world what many of us secretly believed but were too afraid to admit out loud: many modern jobs appear to be bullshit because they are, in fact, bullshit. Graeber wrote an article titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” for the magazine “Strike!”, and the piece […]
Reviews
Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs?
New York Times
"In “Bull__ Jobs,” Graeber, an anthropology professor at the London School of Economics, applies a critical eye to the Western world of work, where, he says, companies pay people to carry out an endless array of tasks that make no meaningful contribution to society. Graeber is expanding on a 2013 essay that he published in Strike! magazine and that subsequently went viral. In it, citing a famous prediction by the economist John Maynard Keynes, he argued that technology should have made workers more productive, leading to a 15-hour workweek, but instead has been used to make people work more, in pointless jobs they hate."
Review: Bullshit Jobs
Review: Bullshit Jobs
The rise of pointless work and what we can do about it
a18- Book Reviews: Bullshit jobs
Slingshot Collective
Bullshit Jobs, by David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, delighted me with its clear thought on an issue I hadn’t read about.
David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs
Morocco Bound Review
Bring back boredom, alleviate bullshit!
Book review: Bullshit Jobs
CS Thinks
We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everyone has to be employed at some sort of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darvinist theory, he must justify his right to exist
Buckminster Fuller
Bullshit Jobs
Current Affairs
What qualifies and what to do about them…
BULLSHIT JOBSA THEORY
Kirkus Reviews
Overlong, but the book offers comfort to those who are performing the white-collar version of burger-flipping and hating...
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber review – the myth of capitalist efficiency
The Guardian
Is your job one that makes the world a better place? If not, it is probably bullshit, part of a system that is keeping us under control
Money for Nothing
Many jobs are pointless. Others are being automated away. In the future, who will still work for a paycheck?
Book Review: Bullshit Jobs – A theory
Bullshit Jobs
Explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln.
Book review: Bullshit Jobs – A Theory by David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs builds upon David Graeber’s 2013 essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He posits that many of us are working in jobs that we know don’t need to be done, that we could stop doing them and no one would notice. And he suggests that these jobs are bad for us as individuals and society. If you’re nodding at this point, my condolences.
Bullshit Jobs Review: A Look at a Malfunctioning Economy
Sphaera Magazine
"In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber looks at the increase of jobs that do not contribute anything meaningful society. He reasons that the role of bureaucracies and perverse incentives are to blame for the rise of this phenomena."
Review: Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense.
Bullshit jobs: why they exist and why you might have one
And why this professor thinks we need a revolution.
And why this professor thinks we need a revolution.
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory – book review
Counter Fire
David Graeber’s new book raises many questions about the function and worth of work, but doesn’t entirely explain why useless work persists, finds Clare Solomon
The Bullshit-Job Boom
New Yorker
For more and more people, work appears to serve no purpose. Is there any good left in the grind?
You’re Not Just Imagining It. Your Job Is Absolute BS
Bloomberg
Anthropologist David Graeber’s new book accuses the global economy of churning out meaningless jobs that are killing the human spirit.
Back to Work: Review of David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs
Nonsite
"The citation—sensitively different from Kant’s—is a fitting opener to Graeber’s pamphlet. Bullshit Jobs is bent on debunking the contemporary cult of work and kick over the idols of our work-craved society, a world in which man is nothing and work is everything."
Review: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber — quit now, your job is pointless
The Times
This provocative book argues millions of us do work that has no use at all. The case is enjoyably overstated, says Emma Duncan
Book Review: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber is an academic investigation based on Graeber's viral newspaper article about why some people feel their jobs are meaningless and why people do jobs they think are "bullshit." This book should be required reading for any economics or business student and would be a great gift for anyone who is unhappy but isn't quite sure why.
Bullshit Jobs
Do you believe your job is pointless and unnecessary? If so, you might want to read this book!
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