A brief interview around the idea of "Bullshit jobs" and its implications on the psychological well being of workers but also an analysis of the concentration of such jobs in clerical, administrative, managerial, and supervisory areas.
Interviews
in media
Cities made differently
A conversation between Nika Dubrovsky and Vera Mey about (re)thinking cities.
In the following interview, Vera Mey and Nika Dubrovsky discuss their shared experiences as part of the conference series “Challenging Capitalist Modernity,” in which Dubrovsky had taken part on behalf of her organization, Anthropology for Kids.
David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook
A 2011 interview where David Graeber speaks to ReadySteadyBook about his ideas on Marxism, his expulsion from Yale University and anarchist anthropology.
David Graeber interview: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’
The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks to Stuart Jeffries about ‘bullshit jobs’, our rule-bound lives and the importance of play.
David Graeber on acting like an anarchist
What is your first memory of political awareness?
I remember a 1960s peace march in Central Park. And another on a beach on Fire Island, of all places. I was carrying a sign that said ‘We want peace’ and some older guy, noticing I was seven years old, asked me if I understood what it meant. I seem to remember telling him that the meaning was self-evident.
David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, ‘The Most Unlikely Leader Ever’: In Conversation with the London-Based Writer and Anthropologist
In the matter of Tory rule in England, David Graeber has been writing since before the Brexit vote about an “efflorescence of resistance” and a lifting of England’s culture of despair. In this interview, Graeber talks to Christopher Lydon about the recent UK elections and potential change to come.
David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded
In 2014, David Graeber spoke with the Salon about the world of work, the finance sector and the modern working-class. David Graeber often talked about the Revolt Of The Caring Classes - and this interview gives some background to his ideas for this revolt.
David Graeber: Beholden
In 2012, Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber spoke on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors' prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism
Debt, Slavery and our Idea of Freedom
David Graeber in conversation with Jamie Stern-Weiner
Debt’s history, implications, and critical perspective
An interview by Alex Bradshaw around Graeber's research on Debt and it's implication on the historical analysis of things like money, financial markets and social relations.
Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
In this wide-ranging interview for ROAR’s third issue, he speaks about the unexpected history of inequality, the role of debt in contemporary capitalism, the nature of money as a social relation, the violent and self-destructive logic of financialization, the class power of the 1 percent, and the challenges of building a radical-democratic movement against the rule of finance.