Labor Avoidance: The Origins of Inhumanity - Couverture souple

Huer, Jon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761865500 ISBN 13 : 9780761865506

Editeur : Hamilton Books, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamilton Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761865500
• ISBN 13: 9780761865506
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 275
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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