January 13, 2006

Books

Bait and Switch

Bait and Switchby Barbara Ehrenreich

Eugene McCarraher

You probably don’t think of C. S. Lewis as a critic of corporate business. Yet, although he was certainly no revolutionary, Lewis considered capitalism as pointless as it was unfair-a system that squanders the talents and time of workers on absurd but profitable tasks. “The world of business,” Lewis mused at the end of his essay, “Good Work and Good Wo (...)


 

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