Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaves little enough time for a family or any other form of commitment or self-development.) Most potentially dangerous for the family, Cardozo argues, is the fact that the women's movement has urged wives to follow men in their rush to be gobbled alive by the success ethic, emulating the American man at a time when he has never been "less in need of emulation, and more in need of searching his own soul...
Instead of helping these women remove the causes of their "boredom and loneliness at home," as Cardozo believes could (and can still) be done, feminists told them to leave home and become absentee mothers, just like their absentee husbands. Says she: "Their only quarrel with the success ethic was that it excluded women." The delusion that the mass of men chained to jobs are free or fulfilled (that kind of fulfillment is only sporadically true even for a handful of trained professionals and craftsmen) was never examined. "Men no longer have jobs; jobs have men," says Cardozo. "Now, jobs have...
...Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism...
...highly rational and efficient system that gave the South considerable economic growth and a high standard of living for all Southerners, both black and white. While admitting the immorality of slavery, Fogel and Engerman found that blacks in the South, propelled by self-interest and the work ethic, outfitted with a Victorian code of middle-class behavior learned from their masters, did remarkably well under the "peculiar institution...
...answers. Said Seattle Housewife Ginna Dunn: "I think the Carters are sensible, responsible people. I think with Carter we can begin to have faith in something again." John De Luca, director of the California Wine Institute, believes Carter's "emphasis on the family, religion and the work ethic may be the most important thing he has to offer." What if the new President fails to live up to his promise? Westerners believe that the nation will endure, just as it did in the years of Viet Nam and Watergate...