dc.contributor.author | Venter, J J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-20T12:40:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-20T12:40:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Venter, J.J. 2007. Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):133-168, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605] | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1817-4434 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/6940 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is argued here that market fundamentalistic theories ignore the issue of
human agency in work, and the different types of work, because – focussing on the
market mechanism, supply, demand, and price - they have lost track of that which
economic activities (work) are intended for, namely self-sustenance. They have also
minimised human agency in the economic theory, and therefore the understanding of
being-human is lost from both economic theory and practice. Thus they cannot explicate
the role of work for the individual and the community – namely care for self and others
– the significance quality work as part of human dignity is forgotten. I am arguing for
a restoring of meaningful self-sustenance as the norm for work, and the recognition of
the dignifying role of such self-sustenance – both for the community and the individual. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Human dignity | en_US |
dc.subject | Global market | en_US |
dc.subject | Capitalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Labour | en_US |
dc.subject | Competitiveness | en_US |
dc.subject | Society | en_US |
dc.subject | Morality | en_US |
dc.subject | Human agency and selfsustenance | en_US |
dc.title | Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.researchID | 10056076 - Venter, Johannes Jacob | |