Jeannie Rea on peasant utopias and the forty-hour week.

Arena Magazine | April 1, 2002| | Copyright

Sharon Beder, Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR, Scribe/Zed, 2000.

In the first part of Selling the Work Ethic, Sharon Beder chronicles the rise of modern capitalism and with it the development of the protestant work ethic. In this respect, Beder walks a well-trodden path. However, her characteristically lively, well-researched account is welcome and whets the appetite for a critique of the way we measure the value of our lives around paid work. In many ways this is exactly what Selling the Work Ethic does do. Beder explores the way work has ...

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