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托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
The work of the men in the lower barbarian culture is no less indispensable to the life of the group than the work done by the women. It may even be that the men's work contributes as much to the food supply and the other necessary consumption of the group. Indeed, so obvious is this "productive" character of the men's work that in the conventional economic writings the hunter's work is taken as the type of primitive industry. But such is not the barbarian's sense of the matter. In his own eyes he is not a labourer, and he is not to be classed with the women in this respect; nor is his effort to be classed with the women's drudgery, as labour or industry, in such a sense as to admit of its being confounded with the latter. There is in all barbarian communities a profound sense of the disparity between man's and woman's work. His work may conduce to the maintenance of the group, but it is felt that it does so through an excellence and an efficacy of a kind that cannot without derogation be compared with the uneventful diligence of the women.
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在较低野蛮文化中,男人的工作对群体生存同样不可或缺,甚至可能对食物供应和其他必要消费贡献一样大。这种“生产性”如此明显,以致传统经济学著作常把猎人的工作当作原始产业的典型。但野蛮人自己不这么看:在他眼中,自己不是劳动者,不能与女人归为一类;他的努力也不属于女人的苦工,不能混同于劳动或产业。所有野蛮社区都深刻感到男女工作的悬殊。他的工作可能维持群体,但人们觉得它是通过某种卓越和效能做到的,不能与女人平淡勤勉相提并论而不失体面。
上下文
凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》分析野蛮文化中男女工作评价的差异,揭示阶级区分的心理根源。
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你身边是否也有某些工作被赋予“卓越”光环,而另一些同样重要的劳动却被视为低贱?
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