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Do You Dream of Labor? Books About Dystopian and Utopian Ideas of Work
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items Change your perspective and attitude about the state of work with these non-fiction books.
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Work Culture Now and How We Got Here
How to Start Changing Your Relationship to Work
Work Culture Now and How We Got Here
Analytical books that reveal what our work culture is, where it was, and where it might be going
Do you know if you're working a bullshit job?
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
A short book that examines the history of work and the current working culture
Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week
A relevant and thematic sequel to Overtime, if you want to read more of the same ideas
Utopia for Realists: Build the Ideal World
Read interviews from people who have rejected conventional working society either by force or choice
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
An American-centric take on the working class of the past two decades with a focus on individuals who make them up. Understand their struggles of employment and wages.
Mutiny: Rise & Revolt of College-Educated Working Class
Another American-centric take, with a few UK-related perspectives, about standard wage, how it rose (or didn't), what created and is maintaining current minimum wage and the factors that go into raising it, or not.
The Wage Standard: Labor Market Issues
How to Start Changing Your Relationship to Work
Get inspired and reflective from these semi self-help, how-to books
Teambuilding for work isn't always fun. Here are some innovative ways to make it fun and unleash you and your team's creativity - done with a pinch of tolerance for some silly antics.
Safe Danger: Method for Sparking Connection
A succinct book version of Simon Squibb's YouTube videos. A collection of stories from walks of different lives meant to inspire you and show you ways how you could possibly bring your dream into reality.
What's Your Dream?: Find Passion & Love Work
Sometimes I get so lost in being strategic about growing my content that I am blind to the simple joys of being able to create. This book reminded me of them; a philosophy to live by.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
It aptly describes my gripe with modern work and offers some solutions to make work better and how to solve common work stress. Such a fascinating read that could also be in the first section of this list.
Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind
Not all wealth and finance advice and strategies work for you. That's because not everyone is on the same wealth step. Focus your time and energy on the right actions according to which step of the ladder you are on. US-centric.
The Wealth Ladder: Strategies for Every Step
I was surprised by this book. The idea that someone could create a job out of doing nothing; just being a body to someone. It made me wonder what kind of value we put in mainstream work and how alternative paths could even be better than what's famil...
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Satya claims the midlife crisis is a quarterlife crisis handled too late. Quarterlife felt like it touched upon the exact problem I was facing my whole….well, quarterlife. I learned that I am a Meaning type person; that I naturally start from the phi...
Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
I wish this book existed for me when I was still going to college. I agonized for years over how to combine multiple personal interests with marketable skills into a paying career that wouldn't completely suck the soul out of me. I've always understo...
Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn't Matter