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In the end Bullshit Jobs is a thoroughly enjoyable read, and a book that one can enjoy whether they are a hard leftist academic or just someone who hates their job and wants to know why things have come to be this way.

To imagine the ideal society is easy, to bring it about is hard. That is as true as it is cruel, and it is a dilemma that revolutionaries have faced from time immemorial. One aspect of that dilemma is the brute fact, neglected as brute facts often are, that one must begin where one is. That is why the gap between reality and imagination needs to be filled by reform, and as reform begins to show its limitations relative to the ideal so revolutionary consciousness grows.

This is a thoroughly engaging 500 page bio, an easy-to-read page turner – highly political but with more than enough human interest to make it a very suitable gift for someone who is vaguely political without being fanatical.