"Work and Labour"

by Hughes, John (2013)

Abstract

… of work , while these realities, the conditions of the newly emergent ' working classes', were … Weber's account in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism famously linked the spirit of modern capitalism to specifically religious causes in the puritan ethos of work as proof of …

Key Passage

Whether from a Catholic perspective, such as the Dominican Marie-Dominique Chenu writing in 1950, or from a Protestant background, such as Miroslav Volf, these theologies of labour share a desire to respond to the challenge of Marxism and to offer a positive account of human labour within the economy of salvation. (p.164)

Keywords

Protestant Work Ethic, Theology, Protestantism, Catholicism, Christianity, Working Class, Working Conditions, Weber

Themes

Religious Views on Work

Links to Reference

• https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=wsj73bFb38QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA149&dq=protestant+work+ethic+history&ots=BQumAg2TYb&sig=WjRP94lls2xNesXhDK5xORe4HZw
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Lewin3/publication/276177219_%27Technology%27_in_The_Oxford_Handbook_of_Theology_and_Modern_European_Thought/links/5551d84108ae93634eca431f.pdf#page=163

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