
The Right to Useful Unemployment
By Ivan Illich
1978
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In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves and others outside the production of commodities for the market.
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Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich was an Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture and their effects of the provenance and practice of education, medicine, work, energy use, and economic development.