Jon Huer

Labor Avoidance (eBook, ePUB)

The Origins of Inhumanity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 243
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761865513
• Artikelnr.: 42618271

Autorenporträt

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."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Between Nature and Society
Chapter 2. Our "Human Nature"
Chapter 3. The Origins of All Things
Chapter 4. Trouble in Paradise
Chapter 5. Eden Revisited
Chapter 6. Between "Here" and "There"
Chapter 7. We Must Still Eat to Live
Chapter 8. Somebody Else's Labor
Chapter 9. Somebody Else's Energy
Chapter 10. Somebody Else's Life
Chapter 11. Romans, Nazis, and Americans
Chapter 12. To Work or Not to Work
Chapter 13. The Talented, Best, and Brightest Few
Chapter 14. The No-Labor Promise
Chapter 15. The Golden Age of America
Chapter 16. Capitalism Destroys America's Golden Age
Chapter 17. A Day in the New Paradise
Chapter 18. Adam Smith Never Knew Capitalism
Chapter 19. To Work or To Play
Chapter 20. Master or Slave
Chapter 21. The Beginnings of Good and Evil
Chapter 22. From Tools to Machines
Chapter 23. Here Comes the Lazy Body
Chapter 24. The Sweet Stench of Power
Chapter 25. The Daring Escape that Failed
Chapter 26. What Was, What Is, What Might Have Been
Chapter 27. Two Variations and a Recapitulation
Chapter 28. Freewill and the Law
Chapter 29. Robinson Crusoe and "Friday"
Chapter 30. Crime as Short-Cut Labor
Chapter 31. The Obsolete Science of Economics
Chapter 32. Shared Labor, No Labor
Chapter 33. Jesus, Jefferson, Smith, and Marx
Chapter 34. The "New World" Becomes "Old"
Bibliography
Index