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Anthony P.D.: The Ideology of Work (London Tavistock 1977)
Anthony argues that with rapid industrialisation two views of work have developed: an official view representing the basis of the employers' injunction that work should be well done and a radical view that work should be re-organised. He argues that the official and radical views have more in common than is often assumed.

"The Christian institutions have constantly adjusted to the modern world so that the independance of their values have been sacrificed to the need to continue to achieve influence over economic drives."[Quote p.274]

"What we have been observing is the emergence of work as the dominant idea in our lives. There is no alternative in the sense of a coherent challenge based on alternative values there are at best subordinate debates concerning its differential rewards. The institutions and political theories which at first sight appear to offer radical challenges turn out on close examination to be like trade unions essentially economic organisations or like communism even more pure apostles of the theology of work." [Quote p.274]

"A great mass of well-known research has sought to establish that work is the most highly valued activity that it influences perceptions of status and that it deeply involves the satisfaction of the individual. ... The evidence although it has often been collected by questionable means points to the conclusion that most people find their work important and derive satisfaction from it." [Quote p.274]