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Debt : the first 5,000 years
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ISBN: 9781612194196 Year: 2014 Publisher: Brooklyn Melville House

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Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.


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The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucaracy
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ISBN: 9781612195186 9781612193748 1612195180 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Melville House,

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"Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber ... traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice"--Jacket


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Des fins du capitalisme possibilités I. Hiérarchie, rébellion, désir.
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ISBN: 9782228911511 2228911518 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris,

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Ces essais sur la hiérarchie, la rébellion et le désir ont été publiés pour la première fois en anglais en 2007. Leur auteur propose notamment une théorie générale de la hiérarchie, une analyse de la société de consommation et une refondation de la catégorie de mode de production. ©Electre 2015

Fragments of an anarchist anthropology
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ISBN: 9780972819640 0972819649 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press : Distributed by University of Chicago Press,

Lost people
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ISBN: 9780253219152 9780253349101 0253219159 0253349109 9786612078446 0253116996 1282078445 9780253116994 9781282078444 6612078448 Year: 2007 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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An epic account of the power of memory in Madagascar

Possibilities : essays on hierarchy, rebellion, and desire
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ISBN: 9781904859666 1904859666 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oakland, CA : AK Press,

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Essays over hiërarchie, rebellie en verlangen.

Debt : the first 5,000 years
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ISBN: 9781933633862 9781612191294 1933633867 1612191290 Year: 2011 Publisher: Brooklyn (N.Y.) : Melville House,

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Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter system--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginning of the agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems--a system that far preceeded cash or organized barter. It is in this era, Graeber shows, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. With the passage of time, however, virtual credit money was replaced by gold and silver coins--and the system as a whole began to decline. Interest rates spiked and the indebted became slaves. And the system perpetuated itself with tremendously violent consequences, with only the rare intervention of kings and churches keeping the system from spiraling out of control. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history--as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.


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Bullshit jobs : over zinloos werk, waarom het toeneemt en hoe we het kunnen bestrijden
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ISBN: 9789047011767 9047011767 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam Business Contact

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In "Bullshit jobs' stelt antropoloog en invloedrijk denker David Graeber dat een groot deel van ons werk zinloos moet zijn. Want dankzij de technologie kunnen we voor onze productiebehoefte met een vijftienurige werkweek toe, en toch maken we allemaal nog steeds volle dagen. Hij kreeg op een blog hierover duizenden reacties: over de hele wereld blijken veel mensen het fenomeen te kennen. Nota bene: een bullshit job is een baan waarvan de persoon zelf vindt dat het (deels) een onzinbaan is.Graeber beschrijft in dit boek het hoe en waarom van deze banen, die voortkomen uit het westerse kapitalisme maar er eigenlijk haaks op staan (ze lijken meer op de werkverschaffing in het voormalige Oostblok). Onzinbanen komen ook voort uit onze calvinistische overtuiging dat werkloos zijn slecht is.Graebers scherpe betoog is doorspekt met hilarische en tegelijk tragische voorbeelden en doet je met een andere blik kijken naar de rol van werk in onze samenleving. Bron : http://www.bol.com

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Sociology of work --- Personnel management --- arbeidsmarkt --- BPB1807 --- Marché du travail --- mens en maatschappij --- 331.6 --- Arbeidsmarkt --- l'homme et la société --- arbeid --- Arbeid --- Arbeidssociologie --- Arbeidsduur --- Samenleving --- Arbeidsomstandigheden --- Personeelsbeleid --- arbetsmarknad --- arbejdsmarked --- suq tax-xogħol --- tržište rada --- пазар на работна сила --- Arbeitsmarkt --- labour market --- αγορά της εργασίας --- pracovný trh --- тржиште рада --- mercato del lavoro --- trg dela --- пазар на труд --- margadh an tsaothair --- darba tirgus --- trh práce --- rynek pracy --- treg i punës --- piața muncii --- mercado do trabalho --- työmarkkinat --- mercado laboral --- munkaerőpiac --- tööturg --- darbo rinka --- työllisyystaso --- situação do emprego --- margadh saothair --- užimtumo padėtis --- επίπεδο απασχόλησης --- nivel punësimi --- mercado de trabajo --- úroveň zaměstnanosti --- työllisyystilanne --- employment level --- Beschäftigungsniveau --- tööhõive tase --- úroveň zamestnanosti --- situácia v zamestnanosti --- niveau d'emploi --- situation de l'emploi --- employment situation --- nivel de ocupare a forței de muncă --- situatë punësimi --- munkaerő-piaci helyzet --- beskæftigelsesmarked --- tööhõive olukord --- nodarbinātības līmenis --- werkgelegenheidsniveau --- Arbeitsmarktsituation --- стапка на вработеност --- nivel de empleo --- mercato dell'occupazione --- livello occupazionale --- κατάσταση της απασχόλησης --- Beschäftigungslage --- užimtumo lygis --- situación del empleo --- werkgelegenheidssituatie --- anställningsnivå --- foglalkoztatási szint --- beskæftigelsessituation --- situace v zaměstnanosti --- nível de emprego --- marché de l'emploi --- nodarbinātības stāvoklis --- situazione occupazionale --- anställningssituation --- beskæftigelsesniveau --- Arbeidscultuur --- Arbeidsmotivatie --- Arbeid (werken) --- Werktijd --- 450 Werkgelegenheid en arbeid --- Marché du travail


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Bullshit Jobs : a theory
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ISBN: 9780241263884 0241263883 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books

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"Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it. This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world."

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