Labor Avoidance: The Origins of Inhumanity - Softcover

Huer, Jon

 
9780761865506: Labor Avoidance: The Origins of Inhumanity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761865500 ISBN 13: 9780761865506
Verlag: Hamilton Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Labor Avoidance is about work, something everyone hates, and something everyone longs to escape. At the same time, human nature is to sustain life that is physical, and thus constant labor is a necessity. This is what humanity, from Eden to our own post-industrial society, has always tried to reduce or avoid by making somebody else do it. Historically, this nature and origin of labor-avoidance is responsible for war, colonialism, slavery, and now, contract employment in market society. This book explores American capitalism and how labor (and the desire to escape it) has become responsible for so much human struggle and misery throughout history.

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Jon Huer received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1975 and is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written a dozen books of social criticism, including The Wages of Sin,Tenure for Socrates, and also The Dead End, which TIME Magazine's Lance Morrow called "an important and often brilliant book."

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Verlag
Hamilton Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761865500
ISBN 13 
9780761865506
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
275
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