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"""With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. - Times Literary Supplement “Bullshit jobs” (Graeber) or “abstract labour” (Marx)? Felix Stein’s highly original auto-ethnography among German management consultants settles for the second conceptual framework. He explores how they can work so hard without purpose or result before, at some risk to his own prospects, comparing the consultants to British social anthropologists. - Keith Hart, University of Pretoria, South Africa With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. - Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement For those who are interested in what consultancy is about and in what consultants do and how they think about it, Work, Sleep, Repeat is an excellent place to start. - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"""

With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. * Times Literary Supplement * Bullshit jobs (Graeber) or abstract labour (Marx)? Felix Stein's highly original auto-ethnography among German management consultants settles for the second conceptual framework. He explores how they can work so hard without purpose or result before, at some risk to his own prospects, comparing the consultants to British social anthropologists. * Keith Hart, University of Pretoria, South Africa * With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. * Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement * For those who are interested in what consultancy is about and in what consultants do and how they think about it, Work, Sleep, Repeat is an excellent place to start. * The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *

With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. - Times Literary Supplement Bullshit jobs (Graeber) or abstract labour (Marx)? Felix Stein's highly original auto-ethnography among German management consultants settles for the second conceptual framework. He explores how they can work so hard without purpose or result before, at some risk to his own prospects, comparing the consultants to British social anthropologists. - Keith Hart, University of Pretoria, South Africa With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. - Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement For those who are interested in what consultancy is about and in what consultants do and how they think about it, Work, Sleep, Repeat is an excellent place to start. - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. * Times Literary Supplement * Bullshit jobs (Graeber) or abstract labour (Marx)? Felix Stein's highly original auto-ethnography among German management consultants settles for the second conceptual framework. He explores how they can work so hard without purpose or result before, at some risk to his own prospects, comparing the consultants to British social anthropologists. * Keith Hart, University of Pretoria, South Africa * With his powers of observation and his mastery of the research literature on technocratic elites, Stein has written an original and witty book that goes beyond its immediate subject matter to reflect on the nature of all work removed from obvious sources of economic value creation. * Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement *

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Felix Stein is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, UK

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