Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized SocietyThis book relates the problems of the younger generation to such factors in organized society as the business world and the "rat race", the class system, etc. Describes the attitudes of the "beatniks" and other rebels against modern society. For Goodman, the unhappiness of young people was a concentrated form of the unhappiness of American society as a whole, run by corporations that provide employment (if and when they do) but not the kind of meaningful work that engages body and soul. |
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Human Nature and the Organized System | 3 |
Jobs | 17 |
Being Taken Seriously | 36 |
Copyright | |
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