Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PRA history of the capitalist culture of work. It demonstrates that its values of respect for wealth and the justification of inequality are neither natural nor inevitable and that they have been actively promoted at all levels of society. The author argues that it is time to consider alternatives. |
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