📚 Work Ethic

Books with work ethic on their catalogue record, first published between 1700 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject work ethic in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 825 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus	Max Weber	1700	137
	The Corrosion of Character	Richard Sennett	1998	12
	The Joy of Not Working	Ernie J. Zelinski	1994	10
	Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	Max Weber	2008	9
	The Craftsman	Richard Sennett	2008	9
	Conversations about Calling	Valerie L. Myers	2013	8
	Bulletproof your job	Stephen Viscusi	2008	7
	Work, consumerism and the new poor	Zygmunt Bauman	1998	6
	Commitment to Work and Job Satisfaction	Bengt Furåker	2011	6
	Wellsprings of achievement	Penelope Gouk	1995	5
	Who Kidnapped Excellence?	Harry Paul	2014	5
	Daily Rituals	Mason Currey	2013	4
	The Historical meanings of work	Patrick Joyce	1987	3
	It comes with the territory	Al Gini	1989	3
	The Working Life	Joanne B. Ciulla	2000	3
	The ABC's of building a business team that wins	Blair Singer	2004	3
	Team code of honor	Blair Singer	2012	3
	Undoing Work, Rethinking Community	James A. Chamberlain	2018	3
	Daily Rituals Women at Work	Mason Currey	2019	3
	A message to Garcia and thirteen other things	Elbert Hubbard	1901	2
	Sangyō rōdō ni okeru kinbensei ni kansuru kenkyū	Tsutomu Satō	1985	2
	Cross-cultural comparative analysis of work values between Americans and Chinese	Tony Chung Lee	1989	2
	The Protestant work ethic	Furnham, Adrian.	1990	2
	al-Taḥawwulāt al-ijtimāʻīyah wa-qīyam al-ʻamal fī al-mujtamaʻ al-Qaṭari	Iʻtimād ʻAllām	1994	2
	Playing for keeps	Frederick G. Harmon	1996	2
	Bonjour Laziness	Corinne Maier	2005	2
	The Law Of Duty	Dr. James Martineau	2006	2
	Etos kerja di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta	Dewaki Kramadibrata	2007	2
	El empleado ético para la nueva Bolivia	Silvestre Ojeda	2008	2
	Ethics in practice	Andrew Alexandra	2009	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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