Summary Of The Second Chapter Of Paul Bernstein's American Work Values

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In the second chapter of Paul Bernstein’s American Work Values, the author investigates the Demographic and Economic effect on work values in medieval Europe where Luther and his contemporaries offered the European world a contingent endorsement of work, they likewise mounted savage and attacks on the beggars and vagrants that plagued their reality. The fundamental problem was the huge increase in beggary and poverty during the sixteenth century. Moreover, the big effect of this cause was increasing population in western Europe that caused the huge rate of unemployment and poverty.
It is obvious that many of the idle had come into the new capitalist economy as a result of a biological revolution that had created a labor surplus in western

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