The scheme for full employment / Magnus Mills
- Bib ID:
- 879242
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mills, Magnus
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- Edition:
- 1st Picador USA ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Picador USA, 2002
- xiv, 204 p. : map ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 031242163X
- Summary:
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"The whole concept is so simple yet so perfect: men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univans - identical and very serviceable vehicles - transporting replacement parts for...Univans. Gloriously self-perpetuating, the Scheme for Full Employment (or "Scheme," for short) is more than social engineering; it is the unified field theory of the modern working world. And what greater good can there be than honest wages for honest labor?".
"Or so thinks our hero, a five-year veteran of the Scheme, and a contented man. The joy of work lies in just the right balance of routine and surprise. This balance, however, turns out to be more fragile than he could have imagined. A woman arrives on the scene. Some colleagues develop delivery sidelines for extra income. And, most disturbing of all, trouble is beginning to brew between those who believe the Scheme's eight-hour shift sacrosanct and inviolable, and these who fancy being let off a little early now and again (where's the harm?). Disagreement turns to argument, argument to debate, debate to outright schism. Can the Scheme survive?"--BOOK JACKET.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2001
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