A 2015 YouGov survey revealed that 37% of working British adults think their jobs do not make a meaningful contribution to the world. Similarly, 40% of workers in the Netherlands reported that their jobs had no good reason to exist. Why are so many 21st century workers trapped in useless, meaningles

Challenging Capitalist Modernity III Conference III: 14―16 April 2017, Hamburg University www.networkaq.net/

David Graeber, Laura Bear and Nayanika Mathur were recently in conversation at the London School of Economics on the anthropology of bureaucracy. They reflected on the connections between their recent publications that propose a new anthropology of bureaucracy.