• Work Ethic

References for Theme: Work Ethic

• Aronowitz, Stanley
• "Why Work?" (1985)

• Barbash, Jack; Lampman, Robert J; Levitan, Sar A
• The Work Ethic—A Critical Analysis (1983)

• Bauman, Zygmunt
• Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (2005)

  (p.78) "in the beginning, the work ethic was a highly effective means of filling up factories hungry for more labour. With labour turning fast into an obstacle to higher productivity, the work ethic still has a role to play, but this time as an effective means to wash clean all the hands and consciences inside the accepted boundaries of society of the guilt of abandoning a large number of their fellow citizens to permanent redundancy. Purity of hands and consciences is reached by the twin measure of the moral condemnation of the poor and the moral absolution of the rest." 

• Beder, Sharon
• Selling the work ethic: From Puritan pulpit to corporate PR (2000)

• Bernstein, Paul
• American Work Values: Their Origin and Development (1997)

• Boris, Eileen
• "When Work Is Slavery" (1998)

  'At a time when organized feminism concentrated on the Equal Rights Amendment, welfare activists insisted on their right to the resources necessary to mother. They demanded, as a New Jersey activist put it, "help in the areas of emergency food, furniture, moving monies, or help with other normal problems confronting Welfare families, given their inadequate income and circumstances." She exclaimed: "We are not unfit mothers, but neither are we magicians; we do not get adequate monies or supportive services to begin with, in order to have a budget at all."' p. 37

• Breen, K; Deranty, J P
• "A Critique of Postwork Arguments" (2024)

• Cholbi, Michael
• "The Desire to Work as an Adaptive Preference" (2018)

• "The Duty to Work" (2018)

• Eisenberger, Robert
• Blue Monday: The Loss of the Work Ethic in America (1989)

• Franklin, Benjamin
• "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748)

  Advice to a young Tradesman, written by an old One. To my Friend A. B.As you have desired it of me, I write the following Hints, which have been of Service to me, and may, if observed, be so to you.Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought not to reckon That the only Expence; he has really spent or rather thrown away Five Shillings besides.Remember that Credit is Money. If...

• Genovese, Eugene D
• Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974)

• Just, Daniel
• "The Invention of Work in Modernity: Hegel, Marx, and Weber" (2017)

• King, Winston L
• "A Christian and a Japanese-Buddhist work-ethic compared" (1981)

• Lipset, Seymour Martin
• "The work ethic-then and now" (1990)

• "The Work Ethic, Then and Now" (1992)

• Marx, Karl
• Grundrisse (1973)

  (p.202) capitalism’s historic destiny is fulfilled as soon as, on one side, there has been such a development of needs that surplus labour above and beyond necessity has itself become a general need arising out of individual needs themselves – and, on the other side, when the severe discipline of capital, acting on succeeding generations, has developed general industriousness as the general property of the new species.

• Muirhead, Russell
• Just Work (2004)

• Rodgers, Daniel T
• The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920 (1978)

• Rose, Michael
• Re-working the Work Ethic: Economic Values and Socio-cultural Politics (1985)

• Tyler, Gus
• "The Work Ethic: A Union View" (1983)

• Weeks, Kathi
• The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (2011)

• Zuboff, Shoshana
• "The Work Ethic and Work Organization" (1983)