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24 alternatives to Not Our Job

How college has destroyed a generation of workers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Not Our Job launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The End of Jobs▲98

   Money, meaning and freedom without the 9-to-5

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Humans Need Not Apply▲108

   Wealth & work in the age of artificial intelligence

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Workers▲65

   Archaeology of the Industrial Age

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Unscientific America▲54

   How scientific illiteracy threatens our future

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Crisis on Campus▲3

   A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

   2017 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   People Over Profit ▲65

   Break the system, live with purpose, be more successful

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Why We Fail▲76

   Learn from other people's failures.

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Rework▲107

   Meetings are toxic

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Disrupt Yourself▲64

   Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    This American Life - 562: The problem we all live with▲89

    First of a two-part series rethinking and reinvent education

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    The Misfit Economy▲81

    Innovation on the fringe...

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Technopoly▲61

    The surrender of culture to technology

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The Great Workplace▲75

    How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Raising the Floor▲70

    What happens when machines take half our jobs?

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Without Their Permission▲91

    How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Spoiled Brats▲60

    Hilarious and keen views on millennial culture wars

    2016 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Cheap▲95

    The high cost of discount culture

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    We Need Diverse Books▲87

    Advocating and supporting non-majority narratives

    2014 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Innovation and Its Enemies▲65

    Why people resist new technologies

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Alone Together▲71

    Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

    2017 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Orton▲122

    Discovering the next generation of writers

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    In the American West▲55

    Men and women of the American West who work at everyday jobs

    2015 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Nonsense▲59

    The power of not knowing

    2016 · its alternatives →

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