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Review: The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

User Review  - Jacob - Goodreads

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

Review: The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

User Review  - Elizabeth - Goodreads

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

Review: The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

User Review  - Megan - Goodreads

Short and accessible, and a good reframing of the rather tired debates about 'the lack of work' and the need to provide jobs for those in poverty. Jobs don't do anyone any good if they pay crap wages ... Read full review

Review: The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

User Review  - Kenneth E. Harrison, Jr. - Goodreads

A wild analysis of capitalism's pitfalls, in particular manufactured needs and the loss of freedom and humanity we experience as consumers. Illich is especially hard on the medical field. Highly ... Read full review

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