Work And Life; A Study Of The Social Problems Of Today - Softcover

Ira Woods Howerth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371840597 ISBN 13: 9780371840597

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Work And Life; A Study Of The Social Problems Of Today by Ira Woods Howerth surveys the central question of how to create a just and flourishing society in the modern industrial age. Originally published in 1913, the work argues that social progress must be deliberate, conscious, and rooted in a broad social view that integrates economics, politics, education, religion, and ethics. Howerth contends that the dominant aim of industry—profit and private wealth—often clashes with the life-enhancing goals of the community, and that economics alone cannot resolve the ‘social problem’ of the time. He traces historical shifts from religious and political domination to economic power, and he defends cooperation over competitive systems as the ethical path to industrial efficiency and universal well-being. The book proposes gradual reforms: stronger social legislation, municipal reform and public ownership of essential services, and a reorientation of education to produce citizens capable of planning, cooperation, and humane governance. It distinguishes wealth as life-sustaining welfare from wealth as monetary power, and it insists that true prosperity requires health, education, leisure, family, and culture to flourish for everyone.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371840597
• ISBN 13: 9780371840597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300