{"product_id":"book-c4am","title":"No More Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor centuries we’ve believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance—in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem—why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that “full employment” is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world—and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49300215628080,"sku":"BDc4am","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49300215660848,"sku":"ZEc4am","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD [ZM]","offer_id":49300215890224,"sku":"ZMc4am","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/333596-c4am-Square.jpg?v=1733154657","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c4am","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}