Examines broad shifts in American work values from their Calvinist
origins to present controversies involving work, welfare, and
affirmative action.
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development examines the
broad shifts in American work values from their European origins to
the present. It analyzes shifts from work as salvation to work as
opportunity and alienation, and concludes with a more recent focus
on self-fulfilling employment in a context of industrial
downsizing.
Beginning with the Lutheran-Calvinist support of work for the
glory of God, the book's focus shifts to the change in work values
that occurred from early deindustrialization in America to the end
of the Great Depression, a period characterized by both opportunity
and alienation. The modern trends that followed led to the
empowerment of employees even as that empowerment tested the values
of such participation in a climate of rampant downsizing. The book
also deals with the debates related to work and welfare that
simmered during these transformations. Whether it involved
policy-makers in sixteenth-century Europe or wonks in the
Washington of 1996, controversy over public assistance to the
deserving and undeserving poor remained a raging controversy that
spilled over into the debate on affirmative action.
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