1st Edition
Ethics of Industrial Man An Empirical Study of Religious Awareness and the Experience of Society
Preface Introduction Part one: The awareness of ultimate reality 1. Religious consciousness and ultimate reality 2. God 3. Jesus Christ 4. The Kingdom of God 5. The Church 6. Time and eternity Part two: Man and his society 7. Ultimate reality and man’s social existence 8. The Kingdom of God and the good society 8. The experience of capitalism 10. Competitive man 11. Markets and men 12. Christianity and capitalism 13. Social action and power 14. The socialist ideal 15. Communism and the experience of freedom 16. Democracy and the Monarchy 17. Political involvement 18. The social order and the disorder of our society 19. A comparative study: the workers of Austin, Minnesota 20. Conclusions 21. Implications and outlook Appendix: On Method
Biography
Fred Blum was an American social scientist and the founder of The New Era Centre. He was born in Germany in 1914, emigrated to the US in 1938 where he became an American citizen and came to Britain in 1959 on behalf of the Society of Friends (Quakers) to study new developments in mental health and religion with special reference to the organization of industry. Fred taught economics at Howard University in Washington DC and was a professor of social sciences in Michigan and Minnesota. The US Senate appointed Fred advisor to the Labor and Welfare Committee, and he worked as a consultant for the young Senator John F Kennedy.
Review of the first publication:
‘I recommend this book for a variety of reasons. For the field anthropologist it suggests lines of enquiry going beyond the apparent unanimity of judgements and reality. It provides excellent insights into such judgements in our own society. For those students of social anthropology who are obscurely perplexed by a lack of vocation where they most expected to find it this work should provide an arena for critical debate.’
— D. F. Pocock, Man, New Series
