Hill, David W. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3849-1170
(2025)
The worker-priests: care as a composition of love and solidarity.
Culture and Organization.
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Abstract
This article explores the moral lessons organization studies can draw from the worker-priest movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The first section gives an account of the worker-priests and their organization in France. The second section, drawing on the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas and Leonardo Boff, identifies in this organization a resonance of care that operates via four techniques: proximity; self-divestment; radical giving; and collective particularity. These techniques establish a synthesis between love and solidarity that aims at bringing justice into the world as care. The article concludes with a discussion of what this account might bring to a critical spirituality of organization that is centred on the precariousness of existence – and its demand for care.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Status: | Published |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14759551.2025.2467084 |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| School/Department: | York Business School |
| URI: | https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/11548 |
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