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The Disobedient Society

The Disobedient Society

Paperback

General PsychologyGeneral World HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 8293064552
ISBN13: 9788293064558
Publisher: New Compass Pr
Published: Mar 8 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

We live in a time where obedience is considered a relic of the past. We tend to see ourselves as free agents who can voluntarily enter our personal relationships, family arrangements--and jobs--without being bound to them for life or subject to someone else's authority.


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 labour contract as an undisputed part of the world.


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