Why Work Arguments for the Leisure Society All the stars have a go includes essays by William Morris Kropotkin Lewis Mumford Cliff Harper Bertrand Russell Colin Ward etc
All the stars have a go includes essays by William Morris, Kropotkin, Lewis Mumford, Cliff Harper, Bertrand Russell, Colin Ward etc.
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[PDF] Download ↠ Why Work?: Arguments for the Leisure Society | by ↠ Vernon Richards
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[PDF] Download ↠ Why Work?: Arguments for the Leisure Society | by ↠ Vernon Richards
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Published :2019-02-10T17:42:46+00:00
I read this book ages ago and will revisit it, but one thing I remember is that it was severely lacking is a statistical breakdown of what percentage of companies in the economy are productive, and of that fraction of productive companies how many of the employees actually produce. I have tried to find this information myself, and as far as I am aware there is no original research indicating how many people provide real services (medical care, engineering, freight, maintenance, etc) and real goo [...]
Cool ideas, sometimes hidden inside very dull language. I'd love to see this book updated for the 21st century with more (any?) diversity of contributors.
This was a life-changing read for me. If only everyone would read this book and have conversations about it!
interesting stuff; some of it was quite dated (1960) and topical.