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[Essays] The Honor of Work by Charles Péguy

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This essay has no soft edges. Peguy is controversial and minces no words. “Today, an artisan is no longer an artisan.” “Those bygone workers… had an absolute honor.” Writing at the dawn of the twentieth century, Peguy is a Frenchman recalling pre-Industrial France; yet his trenchant reflections raise issues that have only become more pressing.

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