Having a work ethic means being disciplined and hard-working amongst other things. But I'm hard-pressed to see this as being part of the notion of ethics in the usual or philosophical sense.

Who coined the term - its hard not to believe its relatively recently.

Is having a 'work ethic', in itself, in fact,ethic ethical?

Having a work ethic means being disciplined and hard-working among other things. But I'm hard-pressed to see this as being part of the notion of ethics in the usual or philosophical sense.

Who coined the term? It's hard not to believe it's relatively recent.

Is having a 'work ethic', in itself, in fact, ethical?