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Labor Avoidance
The Origins of Inhumanity
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2015
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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.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-6550-6
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978-0-7618-6551-3
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
259
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
1 Between Nature and Society No access Pages 1 - 8
2 Our “Human Nature” No access Pages 9 - 12
3 The Origins of All Things No access Pages 13 - 16
4 Trouble in Paradise No access Pages 17 - 24
5 Eden Revisited No access Pages 25 - 30
6 Between “Here” and “There” No access Pages 31 - 34
7 We Must Still Eat to Live No access Pages 35 - 38
8 Somebody Else’s Labor No access Pages 39 - 46
9 Somebody Else’s Energy No access Pages 47 - 56
10 Somebody Else’s Life No access Pages 57 - 62
11 Romans, Nazis, and Americans No access Pages 63 - 68
12 To Work or Not to Work No access Pages 69 - 74
13 The Talented, Best, and Brightest Few No access Pages 75 - 82
14 The No-Labor Promise No access Pages 83 - 98
15 The Golden Age of America No access Pages 99 - 104
16 Capitalism Destroys America’s Golden Age No access Pages 105 - 112
17 A Day in the New Paradise No access Pages 113 - 120
18 Adam Smith Never Knew Capitalism No access Pages 121 - 134
19 To Work or To Play No access Pages 135 - 138
20 Master or Slave No access Pages 139 - 148
21 The Beginnings of Good and Evil No access Pages 149 - 154
22 From Tools to Machines No access Pages 155 - 162
23 Here Comes the Lazy Body No access Pages 163 - 172
24 The Sweet Stench of Power No access Pages 173 - 178
25 The Daring Escape that Failed No access Pages 179 - 184
26 What Was, What Is, What Might Have Been No access Pages 185 - 190
27 Two Variations and a Recapitulation No access Pages 191 - 200
28 Freewill and the Law No access Pages 201 - 206
29 Robinson Crusoe and “Friday” No access Pages 207 - 212
30 Crime as Short-Cut Labor No access Pages 213 - 222
31 The Obsolete Science of Economics No access Pages 223 - 232
32 Shared Labor, No Labor No access Pages 233 - 238
33 Jesus, Jefferson, Smith, and Marx No access Pages 239 - 244
34 The “New World” Becomes “Old” No access Pages 245 - 252
