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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
IntroductionJohn C. Seitz and Christine Firer Hinze | 1
PART I: SEEING DIFFERENTLY: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF ECONOMY AND WORKThe 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 USUALThe 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 WORKINGThe "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.
Summary
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.
