If the Puritan work ethic depended on self-denial, which generated the surplus needed for prosperity, the affluent society depended on endless consumption and instant gratification, which destroyed ...

Sean Illing is the host of The Gray Area podcast. When you hear the phrase “work ethic,” you might think of the perfect employee. The one who puts her job above everything else, who never ...

How can dissatisfaction with work shade so easily into a craving for more of it? In “Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America,” the historian Erik Baker explains ...