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The right to useful unemployment and its professional enemies

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Boyars, 1978 - Business & Economics - 95 pages

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Short (22000 word) book, which despite its length just keep the insights into modern society coming. Read full review

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This was kind of inscrutable and didn't have that much to do directly with work. Wish I'd read Tools for Conviviality first. Read full review

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Contents

Foreword
7
Disabling Professions
38
Enabling Distinctions
65
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The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies
Ivan Illich
No preview available - 1996

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TitleThe right to useful unemployment and its professional enemies
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AuthorIvan Illich
Editionreprint
PublisherBoyars, 1978
ISBN0714526282, 9780714526287
Length95 pages
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