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The Disobedient Society - by Mat Little (Paperback)

The Disobedient Society - by  Mat Little (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In <i>The Disobedient Society</i>, Mat Little investigates the historical evolution of obedience, how increasing material abundance threatens the labor contract, and what a disobedient society might look like.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>We live in a time where obedience is considered a relic of the past. We tend to see ourselves as free agents who can voluntary enter our personal relationships, family arrangements--<i>and jobs</i>--without being bound to them for life or subject to someone else's authority.</p><p>The labor contract that we all enter in order to earn a living is essentially an agreement of obedience in exchange for wages. But as psychologist Stanley Milgram--the instigator of the famous "electric shock" experiments--discovered in the 1960s, obedience relies on free will. What neoliberalism has done is to camouflage obedience by reifying the labor contract as an undisputed part of the world.</p><p>In <i>The Disobedient Society</i>, Mat Little investigates the historical evolution of obedience, how increasing material abundance threatens the labor contract, and what a disobedient society might look like.</p>

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