A collection of essays...

I was looking for Dorothy Sayers Why Work?

written at the end of wwII... speaks to consumerism, and the false creation of products to sell. argues for doing a job well, to do a job well, as a God pleasing lifestyle... not to serve the community, but to simply serve the work..."...is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himeself to God." and ""the Church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly - but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table-legs or ill-fitting drawers ever, I dare swear, came out of the carpenter's shop at nazareth."