Selling the Work Ethic
Subtitle: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: June 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781856498852
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Work & labour; Work; Social Science; Sociology; Work ethic; Labor; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Social History; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General
First sentence: The concept of work as a determinant of personal value and identity and as an indicator of good character and good morals would have been alien in many past societies.