文档介绍：Human Dignity Work Studs Terkel: Introduction to WORKING, 1972 This book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violence – violence to the spirit as well as to the body ”. From the Introduction to Studs Terkel, WORKING: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about It. p. xi ON WORK: Because fresh questions and problems are always arising, there are always fresh hopes, but also fresh fears and threats , connected with this basic dimension of human existence: man's life is built up every day from work , from work it derives its specific dignity, but at the same time work contains the unceasing measure of human toil and suffering, and also of the harm and injustice which rate deeply into social life within individual nations and on the international level. Pope John Paul II Encyclical LABORUM EXERCENS (1981) ment from an Friend A month ago, I had a court reporter, in her early 20's, who'd just graduated from - good - and expensive - private liberal arts school. We had lunch together. She asked me what I thought about the minimum wage - saying, first, that her friends didn't support it because "those people" who do the minimum wage jobs don't deserve anything more ! I was shocked. I told her, first, that she needed to get new friends. Second, I told her that when the parental and grandparental welfare ran out for them, and they were in their '40's, and doing those jobs, then they might know why the minimum wage should be raised. I wonder what they taught those students at St. John's and I'm sure its no different anywhere else. What hateful stuff!!! Why do Universities not Provide opportunities to study “ work ”? ? Social Class Bias of academia ? Association of work with socialism munism ? Lack of attention to work in media ? Separation of “ business ” and “ work ” many media “ Busines ’s channels, no ‘ Work ’ channels ? Disciplinary silos of academic structures preven