Are more and more people working meaningless jobs?

Graeber does not claim to know which jobs are useless and which are not; instead he asks workers to weigh in on that themselves

BULL__ JOBS 
David Graeber  
Simon & Schuster
333 pages; $27
 
What do all those people crowding into subway cars, sitting in rush-hour traffic and walking down city streets in business attire actually do all day? They are seemingly working somewhere — the national unemployment rate is the lowestit’s been since 2000 — and data would suggest that many of them are working in offices. Blue-collar jobs now make up less than 14 per cent of total employment, down from 31 per cent in 1970. But understanding how these white-collar workers occupy themselves when they get to their desks in