Sinnicks, M. and Reeves, Craig (2024) Recognition, Craft and the Elusiveness of 'Good Work'. Business Ethics Quarterly , ISSN 1052-150X. (In Press)
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Abstract
This article seeks to challenge existing understandings of good work. It does so through a critical exploration of recognitive and craft conceptions of work, which are among the richest and most philosophically nuanced of extant accounts. The recognitive view emphasises work’s recognitive value through the social esteem derived from making a valuable social contribution. But by making recognition foundational, it is unable to appreciate the irreducible ethical significance of the objective quality of one’s work activity. The ‘craft ideal’, by contrast, promises to provide a powerful basis for understanding the importance of rich, rewarding, and morally educative activities, but is undermined by a laudable but misdirected egalitarian impulse which prevents it from being able to properly distinguish good from bad work. One underlying aim of our discussion is to provoke deeper reflection from business ethicists regarding what we might want from an account of good work.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Craig Reeves |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jan 2025 12:54 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Apr 2025 01:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54821 |
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