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Books--Ideology
and Theory
Peter
D. Anthony, The Ideology of Work.
London: Tavistock, 1977. Good bibliography.
Herbert
Applebaum, The Concept of Work. Ancient, Medieval,
Modern. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Hannah
Arendt, The Human Condition. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1958. Profoundly suggestive phenomenology
of labor, work, and "action."
Daniel
Bell, Work and Its Discontents.
Boston: Beacon, 1956.
Fred
Best, ed. The Future of Work. Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973. Though old, full of useful
pieces.
Harry
Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capitalism. The Degradation
of Work in the Twentieth Century.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975.
Thomas
Carlyle, Past and Present. Carlyle's "Gospel
of Work."
Emile
Durkheim, The Division of Labor in Society. Trans.
George Simpson.
New York: Macmillan, 1933.
Sigmund
Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents. Trans.
James Strachey.
New York: Norton, 1989.
Georges
Friedman, The Anatomy of Work. Labor, Leisure, and
the Implications of Automation.
Trans. Wyatt Rawson.
Westport: Greenwood, 1962.
Erich
Fromm, The Sane Society.
New York: Henry Holt, 1990.
André
Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason. Trans. G.
Handyside and C. Turner.
London: Verso, 1989.
Sebastian
de Grazia, Of Time, Work, and Leisure. Garden
City: Anchor, 1962.
Robert
Heilbroner, The Act of Work.
Washington: Library of Congress, 1985.
W.
J. Heisler and John W. Houck, eds., A Matter of Dignity:
Inquiries into the Humanization of Work.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1977,
Frederick
Herzberg, Work and the Nature of Man. Cleveland:
World, 1966.
John
Paul II, Of Human Work [Laborem Exercens].
Washington: United States Catholic Conference, 1981.
Karl
Löwith, "The Problem of Work," in From Hegel
to Nietzsche. Trans. David E. Green.
Garden City: Anchor, 1967.
Georg
Lukács, The Ontology of Social Being: Labor.
Trans. David Fernbach.
London: Merlin, 1980.
Alasdair
MacIntyre, After Virtue. Notre Dame: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1982. Chap. 14 for the conception of
practices.
Herbert
Marcuse, Eros and Civilization. Boston:
Beacon, 1974. Important book for the American New Left.
Karl
Marx, Capital_______, The 1844 manuscripts, in Erich
Fromm, ed., Marx's Concept of Man.
New York: Ungar, 1966.
Stanley
R. Parker, The Future of Work and Leisure. London:
MacGibbon & Kee, 1971.
Paul
Ransome, The Work Paradigm. A Theoretical Investigation
of Concepts of Work. Aldershot: Avebury, 1996.
Alan
Richardson, The Biblical Doctrine of Work. London:
SCM, 1963.
Jay
B. Rohrlich, Work and Love: The Crucial Balance.
New York: Summit, 1980.
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Emile, Book 3.
John
Ruskin, "Work" in The Crown of Wild Olive._______,
"On the Nature of Gothic" in The Stones of Venice.
Jean-Paul
Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, trans. Alan
Sheridan-Smith.
London: Verso, 1976.
E.
F. Schumacher, Good Work.
New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Robert
Sessions and Jack Wortman, eds., Working in America.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1992.
Adam
Smith, The Wealth of Nations, first three chapters
on the division of labor.
Dorothee
Soelle with Shirley Cloyes, To Work and to Love.
A Theology of Creation.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
Frederick
W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management.
New York: Norton, 1947.
"Taylorism" is a now-infamous management theory
of efficient division of work roles.
Keith
Thomas, ed. The Oxford Book of Work. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Miroslav
Volf, Work in the Spirit. New York: Oxford
University, 1991. A new Christian theology of "vocations."
Max
Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
Trans. Talcott Parsons.
New York: Scribner's, 1958.
Simone
Weil, The Need for Roots. Trans. Arthur Wills.
New York: Harper & Row, 1952.
Claude
Whitmyer, ed., Mindfulness and Meaningful Work. Berkeley:
Parallax, 1994. Buddhist perspectives.
Gerard
Winstanley, The Law of Freedom in a Platform [1652].
Ed. Robert W. Kenny.
New York: Schocken, 1973. Most interesting economic
radical of the English Revolution.
(Compiled:
May 2000)
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