Ebook: Shadow Work

In five essays, followed by extensive notes and bibliographies, Ivan Illich embarks on a major historical and sociological analysis of modern man's economic existence. He traces and analyzes options which surpass the conventional political 'right-left' and the technological 'soft-hard' alternatives and presents the concept of the 'vernacular' domain: " ... to name those acts of competence, lust or concern that we want to defend from measurement by Chicago Boys or Socialist Commissars ... the preparation of food and the shaping of language, childbirth and recreation, without implying either a priva.;Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I : THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF PUBLIC CHOICE; II : VERNACULAR VALUES; III : THE WAR AGAINST SUBSISTENCE; IV : RESEARCH BY PEOPLE; V : SHADOW WORK; NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES; BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR; Copyright.