Selling the Work Ethic
Subtitle: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781856498845
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Work & labour; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Sociology / General; Work; Work ethic
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.