The Protestant Work Ethic and Attitudes Towards Work

Rusu, Raluca

doi:10.2478/bsaft-2018-0014

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“…In her article describing her life growing up in a middle‐class, white settler family, Mclean (2018) examines how colonial policies and myths framed economic inequality as the outcome of personal merit and not oppressive practices. Success is simply a matter of good instinct and the desire to work (Rusu, 2018; Weber, 1992). This all becomes part of the colonial scripts “that frame Indigeneity as inferior while simultaneously constructing white settler identity as superior, effectively naturalizing settler colonial power” (Gebhard et al, 2022, 8).…”

Section: Becoming the Right Kind Of Rangermentioning

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Military wealth: How money shapes Indigenous‐state relations among Canadian rangers

Romagnoli

2023

Economic Anthropology

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Presented as the eyes, ears, and voice for the Canadian Armed Forces in the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Rangers within the first Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (1CRPG) are applauded as being positive and progressive examples of state‐Indigenous relations. Located in almost 70 communities across the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, the Yukon and Atlin, British Columbia (BC), Canadian Rangers in 1CRPG are viewed as a critical part of the arctic defense strategy and a cheap and easy way to maintain arctic sovereignty, especially in predominately Indigenous communities in the high arctic. Focusing on how Rangers and Ranger Instructors talk and think about the pay system, this article examines how value is ascribed to Rangers depending on their ability and desire to financially invest in the organization. Studying the polarity, this article analyzes how the military—which prides itself on employing Indigenous people as part of arctic defense—reinforces colonial ideologies and relational structures of Indigenous communities' dependence on state aid. However, this, I argue, further entrenches dangerous colonial stereotypes that (Indigenous) members make poor economic choices and are thus responsible for continuing their ongoing poverty and inferiority.

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Section: Becoming the Right Kind Of Rangermentioning

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Military wealth: How money shapes Indigenous‐state relations among Canadian rangers

Romagnoli

2023

Economic Anthropology

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“…The essence of this understanding of work is that strenuous labor leads to a desire for even greater labor. Today's work ethic is closer to ideological beliefs than moral life values because work has become a duty and a sign of personal satisfaction for individuals in modern society (Rusu, 2018).…”

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Serbia between western individualism and orthodox collectivism

Milić

2023

Ekonomski signali

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The paper discusses the problems that come with the contradictions between individualism and collectivism. Discussions about these contradictions are still present in academic circles today. In Eastern European countries, individualism became relevant after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Up to then, the collectivist spirit prevailed. By accepting neoliberalism, post-socialist Eastern European countries began economic reform, including further educational reform, health reform, cultural reform, etc. This reform also meant the transition from collectivism to individualism because modern neoliberal capitalism belongs to individualism, in which the main focus is on the individual as the largest consumer. The transition to neoliberal capitalism led to a considerable number of workers losing their jobs after the liberalization, deregulation, and privatization of the Serbian economy, resulting in the lifeless demographic image of Serbia, which worsens significantly yearly. Today, Serbia remains without a working-age population, which, in addition to young and highly educated workers, also consists of artisans of various occupations. For the Serbian political elites, the path to the EU does not lead to the question. We've been on that road for twenty years, and it doesn't seem like we've moved much since the beginning. According to the principle, "one step forward, two steps back."

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Impact of work ethic on proactive work behaviors: The moderating roles of education and party affiliation in China

Zhang

Chen

2020

Curr Psychol

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The Protestant Work Ethic and Attitudes Towards Work

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

Military wealth: How money shapes Indigenous‐state relations among Canadian rangers

Military wealth: How money shapes Indigenous‐state relations among Canadian rangers

Serbia between western individualism and orthodox collectivism

Impact of work ethic on proactive work behaviors: The moderating roles of education and party affiliation in China

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