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Read & copy the quotation
“worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.”
- Source
- Signs of Change
- Date
- 1888
Meaning of “worthy work carries with it the hope of…”
Morris evaluates work by whether it leaves room for rest, produces something worth using and gives the worker some creative satisfaction during the process itself.
Where does it come from?
Signs of Change, lecture “Useful Work versus Useless Toil,” beginning on printed page 141, Project Gutenberg #3053. Morris defines the hope that makes work worth doing as hope of rest, useful product and pleasure in the work itself, then summarizes those three elements in the retained sentence. It remains socialist moral and economic argument about labor, not a universal workplace-satisfaction metric.
