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Sharon Beder does a thorough job of examining the background and harmful effects of the work . Library descriptions.

Sharon Beder does a thorough job of examining the background and harmful effects of the work ethic. For example, the work ethic draws much of its strength from altruistic motives to help other people, as typified for example by parents who mistakenly overwork to try to give their children a better life, when the children would be better off spending quality time with the parents.

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Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR more. In this major new book, Sharon Beder unearths the origins and the practices of a triumphant culture of work in which the wealthy are respected and inequality is justified. At the onset of the twenty first century work and production have become ends in themselves. Dr Beder shows that these values are neither natural nor inevitable. They have been actively promoted – through religious preaching, corporate propaganda, the education system, and socialisation – by those who benefit most from them.

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Selling the Work Ethic" by Sharon Beder is a highly readable and thought-provoking history of how work has . Ms. Beder concludes that the work ethic crowds out time for people to reflect on the deeper meaning of their lives and to work collectively towards change.

Selling the Work Ethic" by Sharon Beder is a highly readable and thought-provoking history of how work has come to dominate our society. While the author offers little guidance as to how people might move beyond this impasse, those who do take the time to read her book are rewarded with greater insight and understanding.

Professor Sharon Beder has written 10 books and many book chapters, articles and conference papers, as well as consultancy reports and . Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR, Zed Books, London. The New Engineer, Macmillan, South Melbourne.

Professor Sharon Beder has written 10 books and many book chapters, articles and conference papers, as well as consultancy reports and teaching resources.

Sharon Beder's new book Selling the Work Ethic: from puritan pulpit. to corporate PR (. /Books/work. html) was published in November. by Scribe Publishing, Melbourne. Professor Sharon Beder (. /about. html) is an honorary professorial fellow. at the University of Wollongong. Sharon Beder's Publications (. /index.

Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR. London: Zed Books, 2000. Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Durrenberger, E. Paul, and Dimitra Doukas. Black, Bob. The Abolition of Work.

Sharon Beder is a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of. .

Sharon Beder is a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Professor Beder initially trained and worked as a civil engineer before becoming interested in the social, political and philosophical aspects of engineering and then environmental politics.