Recognition, Craft, and the Elusiveness of ‘Good Work’
本文批判性地探讨了认可理论和技艺理想这两种对好工作的理解，指出前者忽视工作活动的客观质量，后者因平等主义冲动而难以区分好坏工作，旨在引发商业伦理学者对好工作概念的深入反思。
This article seeks to challenge existing understandings of good work. It does so through a critical exploration of recognitive and craft conceptions of work, which are among the richest and most philosophically nuanced of extant accounts. The recognitive view emphasises work’s recognitive value through the social esteem derived from making a valuable social contribution. But by making recognition foundational, it is unable to appreciate the irreducible ethical significance of the objective quality of one’s work activity. The ‘craft ideal,’ by contrast, promises to provide a powerful basis for understanding the importance of rich, rewarding, and morally educative activities, but is undermined by a laudable but misdirected egalitarian impulse which prevents it from being able to properly distinguish good from bad work. One underlying aim of our discussion is to provoke deeper reflection from business ethicists regarding what we might want from an account of good work.