New Work New Culture: Work We Want And A Culture That Strengthens Us

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By Frithjof Bergmann *59

Published Nov. 8, 2019

We’ve never experienced a world without the “job system” that has organized work since the Industrial Revolution—but, according to Frithjof Bergmann *59, this tried system is nearing collapse. In New Work New Culture: Work We Want And and A Culture That Strengthens Us (Zero Books), Bergmann proposes an alternative to the job system, carefully developed since the ‘70s, that might save us from chaos when disaster inevitably strikes.

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