1. AMERICAN WORK’S VALUE

2. WORK ETHIC
Puritan ethic/ Protestan Ethic Work Hard Materialism Wealth Possession

3. AMERICAN DREAM national ethos of the United States
The discovery of gold in California in brought in a hundred thousand men looking for their fortune overnight--and a few did find it.
Thus was born the California Dream of instant success. Historian H. W. Brands noted that in the years after the Gold Rush, the California Dream spread across the nation:

4. Novel by Horatio Alger: (19th century)
poor rich
Hardwork
Honesty
Luck

5. James Truslow Adams in Epic of America 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.
United States Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

9. AMERICAN DREAM

16. values
“Climbing the Ladder” Workaholic (Achievement, efficiency, production) Work & Play Hard

17. Some terms Vacation: 2-4 weeks Social Security Kinds of Job:
Blue-Collar, White-Collar
Reward Concept: working, producing, achieving

18. Job prestige Duncan Scale:
1 – 5 Physicians, Lawyer & Judges, Architect, Aeronautical Engineers, social Scientist
6 Natural scientists
8 Authors
10 Teachers
12 Actors
23 Motor Vehicle Manuf. Operators
25 Armed Forces
26 Manufacturing Laborers, Coal Miners
Fabric-mill Machinery Operators