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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
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Max Weber, a German thinker who today is widely regarded as one of the fathers of sociology, noticed this in 1905. His book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism tried to explain some of the social phenomena of industrialized and post-industrial labor. Schonelling: If we understand what Weber meant by the Protestant ethic, can we understand our relationship to work today? Now I'm Schonelling, and this is The Grey Area.
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