No More Work by James Livingston PAPERBACK 9781469692081

No More WorkWhy Full Employment Is a Bad Idea\nAuthor(s): James Livingston\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469692081, 978-1469692081\nSynopsis\nFor 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. \n In 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 pro.