Labor Avoidance: The Origins of Inhumanity - Softcover

Huer, Jon

 
9780761865506: Labor Avoidance: The Origins of Inhumanity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761865500 ISBN 13: 9780761865506
Publisher: 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.

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About the Author

Jon Huer is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written over a dozen books of social criticism, including TheWages of Sin, Tenure for Socrates, Call from the Cave, and The Dead End, which TIME Magazine’s Lance Morrow called “an important and often brilliant book.”

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Publisher
Hamilton Books
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761865500
ISBN 13 
9780761865506
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
275