Dignity and work

It is argued here that market fundamentalistic theories ignore the issue of human agency in work, and the different types of work, because - focussing on the market mechanism, supply, demand, and price - they have lost track of that which economic activities (work) are intended for, namely self-sustenance. They have also minimised human agency in the economic theory, and therefore the understanding of being-human is lost from both economic theory and practice. Thus they cannot explicate the role of work for the individual and the community - namely care for self and others - the significance quality work as part of human dignity is forgotten. I am arguing for a restoring of meaningful self-sustenance as the norm for work, and the recognition of the dignifying role of such self-sustenance - both for the community and the individual

Dignity · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sustenance · Engineering · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments

  Adam Smith•The Two Narratives of Political…•2010

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• From the German Ideology

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels et al.•The New Economic Sociology•2021

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• A History of Economic Theory and Method

  John C Murdock•History of Political Economy•1977

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