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Beder Sharon: Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR (New York Zed 2000)
Provides a critique of the Protestant Work Ethic and particularly its implications for the physical environment. (But is their definition of 'work' rigorous enough ? - RJS)

"Modern churches continue to reinforce the message of the value of work. For example at its second assembly the World Council of Churches called upon society to provide all its members with the opportunity to work and stated that all work honestly done whether undertaken for the sake of earning a livelihood or for the sake of the community or out of spontaneous joy in creative effort has genuine value and meaning in the purpose of God." [Quote p.25]

Quotes encyclicals of Pope John Paul II