The "Work Ethic" and Control of the Workforce
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8894957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alvin Finkel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 371-380 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-011-03-08 |
| OpenAlex | W2060420052 |
| Language | EN |
Bruno Ramirez. When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898-1916. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. 241 + viiipp. Daniel T. Rodgers. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 300 + xv pp. American thought from the colonial period onwards has glorified hard work. But the "work ethic" was strongest in the period before the rise of the factories, a period when it was still possible to envision an American society composed mainly of self-employed farmers, self-employed small business- men and those who could aspire to a similar independent status
Aesthetics · Art · Colonial period · Colonialism · Economic history · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics · Work ethic · Workforce · Engineering · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |