Labor Avoidance

Labor Avoidance

EnglishPaperback / softback
Huer, Jon
University Press of America
EAN: 9780761865506
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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.
EAN 9780761865506
ISBN 0761865500
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher University Press of America
Publication date March 24, 2015
Pages 276
Language English
Dimensions 231 x 151 x 20
Country United States
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Huer, Jon