David Graeber
Explore Wiseley summaries of books credited to David Graeber.
Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs asks why modern economies preserve paid work that employees regard as pointless, unnecessary, or harmful. Graeber maps its organizational forms, traces its psychological and political costs, explains how managerial power and work morality sustain it, and considers shorter hours and unconditional income as routes toward greater agency.
7 chapters
The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything asks why human history is so often told as a march from foraging to farming, inequality, cities, and states. Graeber and Wengrow assemble archaeological and Indigenous evidence to show how people repeatedly redesigned collective life—and why recovering those alternatives changes what we think is politically possible.
8 chapters