Jon Huer is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written over a dozen books of social criticism, including TheWages of Sin, Tenure for Socrates, Call from the Cave, and The Dead End, which TIME Magazine’s Lance Morrow called “an important and often brilliant book.”

• IntroductionChapter 1. Between Nature and SocietyChapter 2. Our “Human Nature”Chapter 3. The Origins of All ThingsChapter 4. Trouble in ParadiseChapter 5. Eden RevisitedChapter 6. Between “Here” and “There”Chapter 7. We Must Still Eat to LiveChapter 8. Somebody Else’s LaborChapter 9. Somebody Else’s EnergyChapter 10. Somebody Else’s LifeChapter 11. Romans, Nazis, and AmericansChapter 12. To Work or Not to Work Chapter 13. The Talented, Best, and Brightest FewChapter 14. The No-Labor PromiseChapter 15. The Golden Age of AmericaChapter 16. Capitalism Destroys America’s Golden AgeChapter 17. A Day in the New ParadiseChapter 18. Adam Smith Never Knew CapitalismChapter 19. To Work or To PlayChapter 20. Master or SlaveChapter 21. The Beginnings of Good and EvilChapter 22. From Tools to MachinesChapter 23. Here Comes the Lazy BodyChapter 24. The Sweet Stench of PowerChapter 25. The Daring Escape that FailedChapter 26. What Was, What Is, What Might Have BeenChapter 27. Two Variations and a RecapitulationChapter 28. Freewill and the LawChapter 29. Robinson Crusoe and “Friday”Chapter 30. Crime as Short-Cut LaborChapter 31. The Obsolete Science of EconomicsChapter 32. Shared Labor, No LaborChapter 33. Jesus, Jefferson, Smith, and MarxChapter 34. The “New World” Becomes “Old” BibliographyIndex

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