James Livingston has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is No More Work.
Fuck Work
Summary
Voyons les choses en face : le travail est en train de disparaître. Nous sommes remplaçables : on n'arrête pas le progrès de la robotisation. Et qui croit encore au plein emploi ? Pourquoi continuons-nous à mettre le travail au centre de notre vie : pour la gagner ? Allons donc, nos revenus n'ont rien à voir avec la valeur réelle de ce que nous produisons. Pour donner un sens à nos vies, alors ? On ne construit pas sa personnalité en trimant pour gagner le salaire minimum ou en empochant des millions sans se rendre utile aux autres... Fuck work n'est pas qu'un slogan percutant : c'est la seule façon raisonnable d'affronter l'avenir. Notre productivité nous tue à petit feu, et la planète avec. Il est temps de prendre acte de ce qui est déjà une réalité et de réfléchir à la seule question qui vaille : à quoi ressemblera notre vie, sans le travail ? Fuck work !
©2018 Flammarion (P)2019 Audible Studios
No More Work
Summary
For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance - in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem - why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world - and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.
©2016 James Livingston (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Blood over Water
Summary
Shortlisted for the best new writer category of the British Sports Book Awards, 2010 On an overcast April day in 2003, David and James Livingston raced against each other in the 149th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Watched by over seven million people, it was the first time for over 100 years that brothers had battled against each other in this gladiatorial contest. Only one could be victorious. In Blood Over Water, David and James tell their stories for the first time, giving an intimate insight into one of our best-loved national sporting occasions, whilst also describing a brotherly relationship tested to breaking point. It is an emotional and searching joint self-portrait that looks at the darker side of sibling rivalry and asks just what you would be willing to sacrifice to achieve your dreams.
©2010 James and David Livingston (P)2013 Audible, Inc.