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Christopher Pollard, Sessional Academic in Sociology and Philosophy, Deakin University

Flunkies, goons and managerial feudalism: why David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs is the book that keeps on giving

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Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books.

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. He was also known for his political activism, notably as one of the original organisers of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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