Working Ethics or Why Work

Working Ethics

Author: Marvin T Brown

First published in 1990 by Jossey-Bass, Working Ethics develops an organizational ethic that focuses on decision-making and the design of systems. Brown shows how attention to ethics can improve communication, resolve disagreements, and set just standards for employee-management relations, and so create conditions that foster greater organizational effectiveness. It shows how to use argument constructively as a way to direct ethical discussions to the heart of such basic but difficult subjects as inequalities between employees, the proper exercise of power, and the relationship between rights and justice.

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Why Work?: The Perceptions of a "Real Job" and the Rhetoric of Work Through the Ages

Author: Robin P Clair

Why Work explores the contemporary cultural construction of work, beginning with the expression, "A Real Job." This volume examines "work" in the writings of Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, St. Benedict, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Mary Parker Follett to answer the question, "Can the concept of work be divorced from the thinker's past?" A final chapter re-examines the core issue in light of the vary concept of "work" and ask one more time "why work?" This work is a result of an Honors seminar at Purdue University.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xi
The Ontology and History of Work     1
The Messy Business of Defining Work     3
Philosophy and Rhetoric of Work     17
Philosophers, Rhetoricians, and Activists     31
Plato and Aristotle: Philosophies of Labor     33
Confucius and St. Benedict: Spiritual Leaders     45
Adam Smith: The Father of Capitalism     57
Karl Marx: A Challenge to Capitalism     69
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois: Out of Slavery     81
Mother Jones and Emma Goldman: Labor Activists     97
Emile Durkheim: The Division of Labor     114
Max Weber: The Father of Sociology and Theorist of Bureaucracy   &nbs p; 123
Frederick Winslow Taylor: The Father of Scientific Management     134
Mary Parker Follett: Ahead of Her Time     143
The Meaning of Work     153
Why Work? Concluding Remarks     155
Why Work: An Epilogue     172
References     177
Index     191