Who are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity

Huntington, Samuel P. (2004) Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity. New York: Simon & Schuster. [Brief part in Chapter 4 - Individualism and Work Ethic, Protestant America and Catholicism]

America was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct culture including the English languzge, Protestant values, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for law. The waves of immigrants that later came to the United States gradually accepted these values and assimilated into America's Anglo-Protestant culture. More recently, however, national identity has been redoded by the problems of assimilating massive numbers of primarily Hispanic immigrants, bilingualism, multiculturalism, the devaluation of citizenship, an the "denationalization" of American elites. (From the front flap of the hardcover edition)

The Protestant Work Ethic

Furnham, A. (1990). The Protestant Work Ethic: The Psychology of Work-Related Beliefs and Behaviours. New York: Routledge.

Psychologists have long been active in investigating concepts integral to the Protestant work ethic–the topic is a central one in such areas as occupational, industrial, and social psychology. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and explicitly psychological account. (From back cover of the book)

Comparative Work Ethics

Pelikan, J. K. and Nasr, S.H. (Ed.) (1985). Comparative Work Ethics: Judeo-Christian, Islamic, and Eastern. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Occasional Papers of the Council of Scholars, No. 4.