Labor avoidance : the origins of inhumanity /
<Span style=""font-weight:bold;"">Jon Huer is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written over a dozen books of social criticism, including <span style=""font-style:italic;"">The <span style="&quo...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Hamilton Books,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1 Between Nature and Society; 2 Our "Human Nature"; 3 The Origins of All Things; 4 Trouble in Paradise; 5 Eden Revisited; 6 Between "Here" and "There"; 7 We Must Still Eat to Live; 8 Somebody Else's Labor; 9 Somebody Else's Energy; 10 Somebody Else's Life; 11 Romans, Nazis, and Americans; 12 To Work or Not to Work; 13 The Talented, Best, and Brightest Few; 14 The No-Labor Promise; 15 The Golden Age of America; 16 Capitalism Destroys America's Golden Age; 17 A Day in the New Paradise; 18 Adam Smith Never Knew Capitalism; 19 To Work or To Play; 20 Master or Slave
- 21 The Beginnings of Good and Evil22 From Tools to Machines; 23 Here Comes the Lazy Body; 24 The Sweet Stench of Power; 25 The Daring Escape that Failed; 26 What Was, What Is, What Might Have Been; 27 Two Variations and a Recapitulation; 28 Freewill and the Law; 29 Robinson Crusoe and "Friday"; 30 Crime as Short-Cut Labor; 31 The Obsolete Science of Economics; 32 Shared Labor, No Labor; 33 Jesus, Jefferson, Smith, and Marx; 34 The "New World" Becomes "Old"; Bibliography; Index
