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What is the Meaning of Work Today? With Jeffrey Hanson

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The Philosophy of Work in a Post-Industrial Society

John Paul II seems to have the Polish steelworker in mind when he thinks about what work is. He's aware of what work can do at its best, but I'm not sure that he has the fundamental principles in place to really vindicate those intuitions or to support them more in a more grounded way. Kwamea Pia came and gave a talk, a two-part talk on work here at Harvard a couple of years ago. It spoke out of some of the same kinds of concerns and themes that are present in my book... But it didn't break new ground specifically in terms of speaking to the realities of a post-industrial economy.

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