No More Work

For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline initiative honesty self-reliance—in a word character. A job was also and not incidentally the source of your income: if you didn’t work you didn’t eat or else you must be stealing from someone. According to such pieties if you truly worked hard you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades through everyday experience these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. Here James Livingston explains why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem resulting in a witty stirring denunciation of the way we have always thought about why we labor. <i>No More Work</i> exhorts us to imagine a new way of finding meaning character and sustenance beyond our workaday world.