“F@!% WORK: Why “Full Employment” is a Bad Idea –or– When Work Disappears, What is to Be Done”

The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy is delighted to host the Rutgers University Historian James Livingston for a conversation on his latest work. Livingston is the author of Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913 (1986); as well as The World Turned inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century (2009) and Against Thrift: why consumer Culture is Good for the economy, the Environment, and Your Soul (2011). Professor Livingston describes his latest writing project as an attack “on the fetish of work in every current incarnation of critical theory, from Marxism to psychoanalysis. It is entitled F@!% WORK: Why “Full Employment” is a Bad Idea, or, When Work Disappears, What is to Be Done.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, November 1 at 1 p.m. in Room 4041 of the Humanities and Social Science Building on the UCSB campus.

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