Ivan Illich
Paperback | Pages: 95 pages Rating: 4.03 | 136 Users | 21 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies |
| Author | : | Ivan Illich |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 95 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2000 by Marion Boyars Publishers, Ltd. (first published 1977) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Nonfiction. Politics. Science |
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Short and accessible, and a good reframing of the rather tired debates about 'the lack of work' and the need to provide jobs for those in poverty. Jobs don't do anyone any good if they pay crap wages and still don't allow people to take care of themselves. This holds doubly true if the majority of our society's institutions are in fact geared to restrict people's freedom to care for themselves when they could. (Think the American Medical Association and their regular advocacy for legal restrictions on the types of medical care people can give themselves, even when such care used to be common.)Illich bills this as a 'postscript' to his Tools of Conviviality, which is now on my to-read list.
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| Original Title: | The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies |
| ISBN: | 0714526630 (ISBN13: 9780714526638) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 136 Users | 21 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
een scherp punt - en meer dan één dat in dit essay gemaakt wordt.How did I hear of this book? ::sigh:: Wasn't that long ago: ~2 months ago.I need to put this on pause since my ILL is due shortly. It is tough going but seemingly brilliant so far.
Must read.
Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects of the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development.
According to Illich, we desire (parts of) The Machine because we have been duped by the rites of Experts - and not so much by TV - into believing that it provides for our Needs. We've all been prescribed standardized health care (needs significant reorienting, I admit), all receive schooling as supposed Emancipation (absolute donkey dick), and finding "a job" is the road to Happiness (...). Accept this logic of continuously handing your faith over to Professionals and you'll continue to suffer.
the argument is interesting. While it is thought provoking, I am not completely convinced with the radical reconstruction of society on the tools of conviviality, in particular the reconstitution of useful unemployment. The idea of market forces is as organic as the development of a mercantilist society from which Illich draws many of this ideas. I am however interested in the idea of developing countries creating a modern poverty, where individuals who are self sufficient and capable of self
This seems a bit more of a muddle than his other books that I've read.
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