Bullshit Jobs

Graeber, D. (2018). Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Simon & Schuster.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2018

Link

https://archive.org/details/bullshitjobstheo0000grae

Cited from

cognitive_science, organizational_management, philosophy

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Additive Bias
  • In bureaucratic process it is the accumulation of forms, sign-offs, and approval layers added in response to perceived failures and rarely removed when the failures cease.
• Alienation
  • Modern theorists (Honneth's recognition-based approach, Graeber's bullshit-jobs critique

    This sourceSimon & Schuster. Anthropological analysis of pointless work as a site of contemporary alienation, documenting the 'spiritual violence' of meaningless labor and proposing reform-based remedies.

• Coordination-Overhead Inversion
  • Bureaucratic compliance: administrative paperwork attached to a service grows until staff spend more time on it than on the service, then compliance-of-compliance audits and meta-policy boards appear.

    This sourceDocuments the growth of administrative, compliance, and 'box-ticking' work that consumes time without serving the underlying activity, with self-justifying roles (e.g., manufactured middle management) forming around it. (

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