Working Alternatives - American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy

Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions' implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.

List of contents

Introduction

John C. Seitz and Christine Firer Hinze | 1

PART I: SEEING DIFFERENTLY: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF ECONOMY AND WORK

The Care Economy as Alternative Economy

Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar | 21

An Integral Ecology as the Ground for Good Business:

Connecting Institutional Life in Light of Catholic Social Teachings

Michael Naughton | 45

Inaugurating a "Bold Cultural Revolution" through Prayer and Work

Nicholas Rademacher | 71

Generative Businesses Fostering Vitality:

Rethinking Businesses' Relationship to the World

Sandra Waddock | 96

PART II: VALUING DIFFERENTLY: CHALLENGING WORK AND BUSINESS AS USUAL

The Homemaker as Worker: Second Wave American Feminist

Campaigns to Value Housework

Kirsten Swinth | 121

Curing the "Disease" in Corporatized Higher Education:

Prescriptions from the Catholic Social Tradition

Gerald J. Beyer | 148

Working Alternatives: From Capitalism to Humanistic Management?

Michael Pirson | 189

PART III: PRACTICING DIFFERENTLY: CREATING ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF WORKING

The "Dignity of Motherhood" Demands Something Different:

A Catholic Experiment in Reproductive Care in New Mexico

Kathleen Holscher | 225

Southern Christian Work Camps and a Cold War

Campaign for Racial and Economic Justice

Alison Collis Greene | 253

Meaningful Work in a Time of Crisis

Vincent Stanley | 280

List of Contributors | 305

Index | 309

About the author

John C. Seitz (Edited By)

John C. Seitz is a scholar of U.S. religion. He serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and as an Associate Director for the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.

Dr. Christine Firer Hinze (Edited By)

Christine Firer Hinze is Professor of Theology and Director of the Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.

Product details

• Authors: John C. (EDT)/ Hinze Seitz, John C. Firer Hinze Seitz
• Assisted by: Christine Firer Hinze (Editor), John C. Seitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780823288342
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8834-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Catholic Practice in North Ame; Catholic Practice in North America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries