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Huer Jon |
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Labor avoidance : the origins of inhumanity / / Jon Huer |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Hamilton Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Work - Social aspects |
Work aversion |
Laziness |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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<span><span style=""font-weight:bold;"">Jon Huer</span><span> is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written over a dozen books of social criticism, including |
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</span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The</span><span> </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Wages of Sin, Tenure for Socrates, Call from the Cave</span><span>, and </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Dead End</span><span>, which </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">TIME Magazine's</span><span> Lance Morrow called "an important and often brilliant book."</span></span> |
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