TY - JOUR AB - THE funeral oration pronounced by Pericles for the Athenians who perished at the battle of Marathon contained the words: ‘It is not the acknowledgment of poverty that we think disgraceful, but the want of endeavour to avoid it.’ His people, demoralized by plague at home and external troubles abroad, refused to heed his words, just as the world has tended to ignore similar counsel for over 2,000 years. VL - 18 IS - 5 SN - 0043-8022 DO - 10.1108/eb048243 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048243 PY - 1969 Y1 - 1969/01/01 TI - Work Study Volume 18 Issue 5 T2 - Work Study PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 7 EP - 42 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -