American Work Values: Their Origin and Development

American Work Values: Their Origin and Development

by Paul Bernstein
ISBN-10:
0791432165
ISBN-13:
9780791432167
Pub. Date:
03/06/1997
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
ISBN-10:
0791432165
ISBN-13:
9780791432167
Pub. Date:
03/06/1997
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
American Work Values: Their Origin and Development

American Work Values: Their Origin and Development

by Paul Bernstein

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Overview

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 industrialization 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791432167
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 03/06/1997
Series: SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Paul Bernstein is Adjunct Professor of Management, former Dean of Graduate Studies, and former Dean of Liberal Arts, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the co-author (with Robert Green) of History of Civilization: to 1648 and History of Civilization: since 1648. he is also the author of Career Education and the Quality of Working Life.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

Part I: Work as a Sign of Salvation

1. Luther Opens the Door

2. The Demographic and Economic Impact on Work Values

3. Calvin and the Calling

4. The Puritan Influence

5. Work and Welfare: the Tudor-Stuart Legacy to America

Part II: Work as Alienation and Opportunity

6. Work Values in Colonial America

7. Work Values in Modern America

Part III: Work as Self-Fulfillment

8. The Human Relations Movement

9. The Human Resources Movement

10. Old Challenges and New Aspirations

Bibliography

Index
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