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Article: Bettering Our Condition: Work, Workers, and Ethics in British and German Economic Thought.
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- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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In this era of (West) European integration, it has become quite clear that labor is a laggard, continuing to remain a completely national actor. In every country, large or small, ruled by social, liberal, or Christian democrats, workers and their collective political and economic representatives still operate in a culture whose parameters are defined by the nation state. Marx was right in predicting that the nature of work, as defined by the exigencies of capitalist production, would inevitably transcend national cultures and etatist boundaries; but he was wrong in hoping (more than predicting) that this process of production-driven internationalization would reduce the ...
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