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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... culture for staples Development has had the same effect in all societies : everyone has been enmeshed in a new web ... cultures become insipid residues of traditional styles of action , washed up in one world - wide wasteland : an arid ...
... culture for staples Development has had the same effect in all societies : everyone has been enmeshed in a new web ... cultures become insipid residues of traditional styles of action , washed up in one world - wide wasteland : an arid ...
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... cultures which determine the criteria for satisfying subsistence activities . Less means the variegated flowering of use - values in modern cultures of intense activity . Although hard to imagine for those already accustomed to living ...
... cultures which determine the criteria for satisfying subsistence activities . Less means the variegated flowering of use - values in modern cultures of intense activity . Although hard to imagine for those already accustomed to living ...
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... culture that provides a programme for satisfactory life to a majority of its members . Cultures are programmes for activities , not for firms . Industrial society destroys this centre by polluting it with the measured output of ...
... culture that provides a programme for satisfactory life to a majority of its members . Cultures are programmes for activities , not for firms . Industrial society destroys this centre by polluting it with the measured output of ...
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Disabling Professions | 38 |
Enabling Distinctions | 65 |
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