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Just work
This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do.Russell Muirhead shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of a just society.
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A lot of people are saying : the new conspiracism and the assault on democracy
Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new - conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum show how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it. Classic conspiracy theory insists that things are not what they seem and gathers evidence - especially facts ominously withheld by official sources - to tease out secret machinations. The new conspiracism is different. There is no demand for evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of shadowy plotters. Dispensing with the burden of explanation, the new conspiracism imposes its own reality through repetition (exemplified by the Trump catchphrase \"a lot of people are saying\") and bare assertion (\"rigged!\"). The new conspiracism targets democratic foundations - political parties and knowledge-producing institutions. It makes it more difficult to argue, persuade, negotiate, compromise, and even to disagree. Ultimately, it delegitimates democracy. Filled with vivid examples, A Lot of People Are Saying diagnoses a defining and disorienting feature of today's politics and offers a guide to responding to the threat.
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Just Work
This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit
between who we are and the kind of work we do. Russell Muirhead
shows how the common hope for work that fulfills us involves more
than personal interest; it also points to larger understandings of
a just society. We are defined in part by the jobs we hold, and
Muirhead has something important to say about the partial
satisfactions of the working life, and the increasingly urgent need
to balance the claims of work against those of family and
community. Against the tendency to think of work exclusively in
contractual terms, Muirhead focuses on the importance of work to
our sense of a life well lived. Our notions of freedom and fairness
are incomplete, he argues, without due consideration of how we fit
the work we do. Muirhead weaves his argument out of sociological,
economic, and philosophical analysis. He shows, among other things,
how modern feminism's effort to reform domestic work and extend the
promise of careers has contributed to more democratic
understandings of what it means to have work that fits. His account
of individual and social fit as twin standards of assessment is
original and convincing--it points both to the unavoidable problem
of distributing bad work in society and to the personal importance
of finding fulfilling work. These themes are pursued through a
wide-ranging discussion that engages thinkers from Plato to John
Stuart Mill to Betty Friedan. Just Work shows what it
would mean for work to make good on the high promise so often
invested in it and suggests what we--both as a society and as
individuals--might do when it falls short.
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