Hijacked - How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Worke

What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today's neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Anderson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009275392
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927539-2
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political Economy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Economic theory and philosophy, Relating to specific socioeconomic groups / status