Maria Ledstam

I am a PhD Candidate in Ethics and my project is about ethical perspectives on work and the relationship between religion and economics in work based on an ethnographic study of two Christian organizations - one Catholic and one Protestant - that run social enterprises. More specifically, I look at how the meaning of work is negotiated in different practices at workplaces connected to these organizations. The ethnographic study is based on participatory observations and interviews from two social companies in the US and Canada. The empirical material from the two cases will be analyzed, compared and discussed in relation to contemporary theological and ethical discussions and questions about the meaning of work.