The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional EnemiesMonograph on a philosophy for restoring quality of life to modern society - contends that autonomous activities, in which both rich and poor people might find a sense of creativity and freedom, have been thwarted by professionalism, technocracy, and the pursuit of productivity. |
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... Tools for Conviviality ( Calder & Boyars , 1973 ) Energy & Equity ( Calder & Boyars , 1974 ) Limits to Medicine ... convivial life . Examin- ing 7 Foreword.
... Tools for Conviviality ( Calder & Boyars , 1973 ) Energy & Equity ( Calder & Boyars , 1974 ) Limits to Medicine ... convivial life . Examin- ing 7 Foreword.
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... Conviviality . I use this term in the technical sense that I have given to it in Tools for Conviviality . There the term designates the struggle for an equitable distribution of the liberty to generate use - values and for the ...
... Conviviality . I use this term in the technical sense that I have given to it in Tools for Conviviality . There the term designates the struggle for an equitable distribution of the liberty to generate use - values and for the ...
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... tools elsewhere ( Tools for Conviviality , Calder & Boyars , 1973 ) , proposed the technical term ' convivial tool ... tools . A retooling of contemporary society with convivial rather than industrial tools implies a shift of emphasis in ...
... tools elsewhere ( Tools for Conviviality , Calder & Boyars , 1973 ) , proposed the technical term ' convivial tool ... tools . A retooling of contemporary society with convivial rather than industrial tools implies a shift of emphasis in ...
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Disabling Professions | 38 |
Enabling Distinctions | 65 |
Copyright | |
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