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Everything I Learned About Work I Learned from My Dad

Everything I Learned About Work I Learned from My Dad

Some reflections on the dignity of work this Labor Day

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Daniel Darling
Sep 06, 2021
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I love to write and study about work and have had the privilege of writing on it in articles for places like Made to Flourish and in chapters in the books The Gospel and Work and The Dignity Revolution. Yet everything I learned about work wasn’t in books and journals and lectures and conferences but by watching my father as a young boy.

Dad is a plumber…

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