Work Discipline and Conditions of Work

J. Wilczynski
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J. Wilczynski: Royal Military College, Duntroon

Chapter 3 in Comparative Industrial Relations, 1983, pp 45-64 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The ethical approach to work has varied historically and still differs today in different countries. In some societies, work has been linked with religion, as symbolized by the medieval Christian maxim, ora et labora (‘pray and work’), where honest and hard work was considered to be conducive to salvation. A re-emergence of this attitude can be later found in a more materialistic setting during and after the Industrial Revolution in the leading capitalist countries, as most clearly observed by M. Weber and T. H. Tawney.1

Keywords: Trade Union; Socialist Country; Capitalist Country; Socialist Competition; Work Discipline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06407-6_3

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