Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity." (Herbert Marcuse)

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

Herbert Marcuse

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