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Hijacked : how neoliberalism turned the work ethic against workers and how workers can take it back / Elizabeth Anderson.

by Anderson, Elizabeth, 1959- author.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Economic history.

9781009275439 (hardback) :

9781009275392 (paperback)

xviii, 369 pages ; 24 cm

Preface -- The dual nature of the Protestant work ethic and the birth of utilitarianism -- Locke and the progressive work ethic -- How conservatives hijacked the work ethic and turned it against workers -- Welfare reform, famine, and the ideology of the conservative work ethic -- The progressive work ethic (1): Smith, Ricardo, and Ricardian socialists -- The progressive work ethic (2): J. S. Mill -- The progressive work ethic (3): Marx -- Social democracy as the culmination of the progressive work ethic -- Hijacked again: neoliberalism as the return of the conservative work ethic -- Conclusion: What should the work ethic mean for us today?

"This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people"--

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