Word: ethicality
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...Weber, in his famous essay, these sentiments were the essence of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. They sum up an ethos that is against the profligacy of a court life or the indifference to time of a Mediterranean culture. Franklin defends as just an attitude that in medieval life would have been condemned as avaricious...
...scriptural passage from Jeremiah or a verse from Luke, then, just as earnestly, cite Marx in condemning economic injustice. The theology of liberation in fact combines Marxist economic analysis with the teachings of the Old Testament prophets and the commands of the Christian gospel to fashion a demanding spiritual ethic: that it is every Christian's duty to fight "oppression," especially industrial capitalism, which is viewed by this theology as the central evil today...
What Banfield is subtly arguing for is a new kind of rugged individualism. If the lower class is to follow the good path of middle-classification, its members must work hard and forego the sex and action of the streets. They must adopt the Protestant work ethic and not squander their meager pay checks on liquor or drugs. But where is the lower class person to get the job that will give him the chance to put the nose to the grindstone? Only through eliminating minimum wage laws does Banfield say these jobs will be forthcoming...
...will take more than an emphasis on the work ethic, however, to solve Mozambique's economic problems. Of its 8 million people, 80% live in rural areas and 90% are illiterate. With only about 1,000 trained administrators, both black and white, Frelimo will have a hard time running a country twice the size of California. Rail and road transport are already breaking down, and internal communications are chaotic. Even some of Machel's "dynamization committees," set up all over the country to sell the people on the new life in Mozambique, have broken up in disagreement. Hundreds...
...businessmen and unions to make his program of economic transformation work. Despite some grumbling, he seems to be getting it. Japanese workers won a 32.9% across-the-board pay increase last year but agreed to a raise of only 14% this spring. The awesome force of the Japanese work ethic is still evident. Last year hundreds of thousands of employees, protected by lifetime job guarantees, were paid but told not to come to work. Many responded by voluntarily cleaning factories or popping into retail stores to help sell their companies' products. Explained a Matsushita Electric official: "The workers told...