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2. Bullshit Jobs - Wikipedia

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   The essay was subsequently translated into 12 languages. YouGov undertook a related poll, [5] in which 37% of some surveyed Britons thought that their jobs did not contribute 'meaningfully' to the world. Graeber subsequently solicited hundreds of testimonials of bullshit jobs and revised his case into a book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. [3] [1]

3. High-Paying Jobs That Don't Contribute To Society - AOL

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   High-Paying Jobs That Don't Contribute To Society. Business Insider. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:59 PM. By Vivian Giang.

4. Work (human activity) - Wikipedia

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   Work, labor (labour in Commonwealth English), or an occupation or job is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. [1] In the context of economics , work can be viewed as the human activity that contributes (along with other factors of production ) towards the goods ...

5. Occupational prestige - Wikipedia

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   Occupational prestige results from the consensual rating of a job - based on the belief of that job's worthiness. The term prestige itself refers to the admiration and respect that a particular occupation holds in a society. Occupational prestige is prestige independent of particular individuals who occupy a job.

6. Bullshit job - Wikipedia

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   A bullshit job or pseudowork [1] is meaningless or unnecessary wage labour which the worker is obliged to pretend to have a purpose. [2] 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 .

7. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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   Labour markets or job markets function through the interaction of workers and employers. Labour economics looks at the suppliers of labour services (workers) and the demanders of labour services (employers), and attempts to understand the resulting pattern of wages, employment, and income.

8. Social position - Wikipedia

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   In addition, the culture and society that a person lives and grows in, heavily impacts an individual's subjective social position. "An individual's subjective social position status depends not only on the objective characteristics but also on how people experience society, the way they perceive their position in comparison with others, and ...

9. Post-industrial society - Wikipedia

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   In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy. The term was originated by Alain Touraine and is closely related to similar sociological theoretical concepts such as post-Fordism , information society , knowledge economy ...