Re-Examining The Protestant Work Ethic: Bibliography

This is the bibliography of a multi-part series analyzing the saga of the crucifixion and its implications. Click here to begin at the introduction and also find the table of contents.


Black, Bob. The Abolition of Work. The Anarchist Library, 1985.

Buber, Martin Boone’s, and Walter Kaufmann. (1970) 2013. I and Thou. La Vergne: EBookIt.com. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5901794.

Calvin, John. Commentary on Genesis – Volume 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, (1578) 2009.

Calvin, John. Edited and translated by John Allen. Institutes of the Christian religion. Presbyterian Board of Publication, Philadelphia, (1536) 1812.

Dauvé, Gilles. From crisis to communisation. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019.

Debord, Guy. (1967) 2014. The society of the spectacle. Translated by Ken Knabb.

ELLUL, JACQUES, and DAVID LOVEKIN. “FROM THE BIBLE TO A HISTORY OF NON-WORK.” CrossCurrents 35, no. 1 (1985): 43–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24458844.

Ellul, Jacques. Jesus and Marx: from gospel to ideology. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1988.

Farr, James R. “Artisans.” In Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, edited by Jonathan Dewald, 127-134. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004. Gale eBooks (accessed May 16, 2021). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3404900064/GVRL?u=psucic&sid=GVRL&xid=9779fd97.

Franklin, Benjamin. 1748. “Advice to a young tradesman”. Founders Online, National Archives. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0130

Gaffin, Richard B. 1998. Calvin and the Sabbath. Fearn, Ross-shire: Mentor.

Heschel, Abraham Joshua. 1951. The Sabbath, its meaning for modern man.

Heslam, Peter S. 2002. “Prophet of a Third Way: The Shape of Kuyper’s Socio-Political Vision.” Journal of Markets and Morality.

Jakab, Peter. “Leonardo da Vinci and Flight.” Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. August 22, 2013. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/leonardo-da-vinci-and-flight

Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of everyday life. Verso Books, 2014 (1947).

Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. Translated by Martin Milligan. Moscow: Progress Publishers, (1844) 1959.

Marx, Karl. 1864. “Results of the Direct Production Process”. Marxists Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1864/economic/ch03.htm

Moltmann, Jürgen. The crucified God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.

Oberländer, Alexandra. “Cushy Work, Backbreaking Leisure: Late Soviet Work Ethics Reconsidered.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 18, no. 3 (2017): 569-590. doi:10.1353/kri.2017.0036.

Pappano, Margaret A. “Medieval and Early Modern Artisan Culture.” The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43, no. 3 (2013): 473-485.

Parson, Lucy. 1912. “The Eight-Hour Strike of 1886,” In Freedom, Equality and Solidarity, edited by Gale Ahrens, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr. 2003. https://libcom.org/library/8-hour-day-parsons

Ryken, Leland. Work and Leisure in Christian Perspective. Portland: Multnomah Press, 1987.

Sayers, Dorothy L. The mind of the Maker. Waterford, Ireland: CrossReach Publications, 2018 (1941).

Smith, Adam. Edited by Salvio Marcelo Soares. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Indianapolis: ΜεταLibri, 2007 (1776) .

Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The principles of scientific management. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. https://archive.org/details/principlesofscie00tayl. 1913.

Uchida, Hiroshi. Marx’s Grundrisse and Hegel’s Logic. London: Routledge, 1988.

Weber, Max. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: and other writings. Translated by Peter Baehr and Gordon C. Wells. New York: Penguin Books, 2002 (1905).

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