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Наративи за труда в миналото
Narratives of labour in the past

Author(s): Maria Endreva
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: labour; narrative; relations of power; disciplinary society

Summary/Abstract: The article traces the different narratives around labour, from the Christian stories about it to its integration into ideologies of nationalism and fascism. It showcases the medieval understanding of work as punishment for a committed sin, the first positive indicators of labour as a means of ethical education during the Reformation, and their development during the Enlightenment. Romanticism opposes those ideas through its glorification of idleness, but in the rise of capitalism labour becomes a pillar of working class ideologies in the 19th and early 20th century.

  • Issue Year: 2/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 185-201
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian