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Busy work (also known as make-work and busywork) is an activity that is undertaken to pass time and stay busy but in and of itself has little or no actual value. Busy work occurs in business, military and other settings, in situations where people may be required to be present but may lack the opportunities, skills or need to do something more ...
Those caught in the stagnant pool have jobs, so the modern definition of the employed would include both the army of labor plus the stagnant pool. However, they are constantly on the lookout for something better. The modern unemployed would refer primarily to the floating reserve, people who used to have good jobs, but are now out of work.
The idea that work is "good" is a modern and deleterious development. The tedious, boring, and grinding aspects of work characterize most of the time spent in many and probably even all jobs. Work is subjectively "alienating" and meaningless due to workers' lack of honest connection to the organization and its goals and outcomes. [19]
When my mother's family sailed from Holland to New York in 1662, high hopes and a lingering love of cheese weren't the only things they brought with them. They also carried over a conviction that ...
The study of work. 'Work' is used here to refer to any social activity. The analytic interest is in how that work is accomplished within the setting in which it is performed. The haecceity of work. Just what makes an activity what it is? e.g. what makes a test a test, a competition a competition, or a definition a definition?
Work and family studies historically focus on studying the conflict between different roles that individuals have in their society, specifically their roles at work, and their roles as a family member. [6] Work–family conflict is defined as interrole conflict where the participation in one role interfere with the participation in another ...
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs and analyzes their societal harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth.
"The phrase 'I'm busy' can trigger someone on the receiving end because it is blunt and implies that they are not a priority to you," says Dr. Holly Schiff, Psy.D., a licensed clinical ...