Labor Avoidance

The Origins of Inhumanity

By (author) Jon Huer

Paperback - £38.00

Publication date:

24 March 2015

Length of book:

276 pages

Publisher

Hamilton Books

Dimensions:

231x151mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780761865506

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.