Chris Brooks is a former community and labor organizer from Tennessee. He is a graduate of the Union Leadership and Activism program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and currently works as a labor journalist and educator for Labor Notes in New York City.
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Imagining a World with No Bullsh*t Jobs
Bullshit jobs are ones where the person doing them secretly believes that if the job (or even sometimes the entire industry) were to disappear, it would make no difference — or perhaps, as in the case of say telemarketers, lobbyists, or many corporate law firms, the world would be a better place.
August 9, 2018
