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Meanings of protestant work ethic in English

Russian
протестантская трудовая этика
Portuguese
ética do trabalho
Spanish
etica del trabajo
Catalan
ètica del treball
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Belief in the virtues of labor.

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протестантская трудовая этика
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Examples for "work ethic"
Examples for "work ethic"
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Preaching a work ethic is difficult when no work is available, however.
The new yorker
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It's the same type of work ethic but I work quite differently.
Reuters
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Biles' supreme talent and work ethic may make her road ahead smoother.
Reuters
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Coworkers say he was cheerful, well liked, had a good work ethic.
Spider bones: a novel
5
Our work ethic and obsession with education make us almost ideal citizens.
Funny in Farsi
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With the Ethics and Politics of Aristotle, were combined Cicero's Ethical works and certain Dialogues of Plato.
Practical Essays
Usage of protestant work ethic in English
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The Germans are joyless capitalists infused with the Protestant work ethic?
The Guardian
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Lasch proposed a "return to basics": self-reliance, the family, nature, the community, and the Protestant work ethic.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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But they leave us tired and achy, thus satisfying the implicit logic of the Protestant work ethic: if it's hurting, it must be working.
The Guardian
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Weber, Max (1864-1920) and ' Protestant work ethic'
Christianity: the first three thousand years
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The Protestant work ethic, as every first-year sociology student knows, is what made western capitalism so (for want of a better word) great.
The Guardian
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Northern business people sometimes imply that with their Protestant work ethic they'd show us sombrero-wearing southerners what's what if they ever ran things down here.
The Irish Times