Bullshit job

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This article is about the phenomenon. For the book, see Bullshit Jobs.

A bullshit job or pseudowork[1] is meaningless or unnecessary wage labour which the worker is obliged to pretend to have a purpose.[2] Polling in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands indicates that around 40% of workers consider their job to fit this description.[3]

The concept was coined by anthropologist David Graeber in a 2013 essay in Strike Magazine, On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, and elaborated upon in his 2018 book Bullshit Jobs.[3]

Graeber also formulated the concept of bullshitization, where previously meaningful work turns into a bullshit job through

neoliberal educational reforms,[5][6][7] contributing to the erosion of academic freedom.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Fogh Jensen, Anders; Nørmark, Dennis (2021). Pseudowork: How we ended up being busy doing nothing. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
  2. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1
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  3. ^ a b Heller, Nathan (2018-07-06). "The Bullshit-Job Boom". The New Yorker.
  4. ^ Graeber, David (2018-05-06). "Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You're Hardly Alone". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  5. ISBN 978-1-4214-3271-7 – via Google Books
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  6. ISBN 978-3-030-19546-5 – via Google Books
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  7. S2CID 237792077
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  8. ISBN 978-1-4214-2859-8 – via Google Books
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Further reading

  • Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit by Laura Penny

External links
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