Degraded Work, Declining Community, Rising Inequality, and the Transformation of the Protestant Ethic inAmerica
1870-1930
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2803407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jon D Wisman (0000-0001-7563-3150), Matthew E Davis, Matthew C Davis (0000-0003-1577-7544) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1075-1105 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Economics and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9246 • E-ISSN: 1536-7150 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajes.12038 |
| OpenAlex | W3123030289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 36 |
The Protestant ethic has been depicted as declining inAmerica between 1870 and 1930, due to new consumer durables and less rewarding work. This study finds that the Protestant ethic did not so much decline as become transformed. The work ethic remained in force, while frugality weakened. This transformation is traced to three dynamic social forces: degradation in the quality of work due to industrialization, the decline of community with urbanization, and a dramatic increase in inequality. Consequently, social respect and social standing came increasingly to be sought through consumption, which became a proxy for hard work, entailing a weakening of asceticism
Capitalism · Consumption (sociology) · Craft · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Geography · Industrialisation · Inequality · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Protestant work ethic · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Work ethic · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Engineering · Law · Race, History, and American Society
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The Market Experience
Wealth in America
The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Function in Economic Development and Economic History
Chapter 3 Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
A Theory of Justice
The Moral Significance of Class
Intellectual and Manual Labour
Veblen on the Decline of the Protestant Ethic
The protestant work ethic
Kuznets’s Inverted U-Curve Hypothesis
Affluence for whom?—another look at prosperity and the working classes in the 1920s
The times they are not changin’
Who benefited from the prosperity of the twenties
Wage gaps between farm and city
Emulation, Inequality, and Work Hours
The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920
Work, and Family Work, Leisure, and Family Roles
Financing the American Dream
Gaps and Glissandos
The Stock Market Boom and Crash of 1929 Revisited
Small is Bountiful
You Can't Go to Town in a Bathtub
Manufacturing Diversity
Stages of Consumerism
Degraded Work, Declining Community, Rising Inequality, and the Transformation of the Protestant Ethic inAmerica
Deterritorialization and workplace culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2014 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |