"Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited"

"On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs"
STRIKE! Magazine
Grad school's a real job. Grad school's a real job. Grad school's a real job.
Not a real thorough anthropological analysis, but some interesting ideas about shifts in the type of work people do.

http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/