ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the balance between work and life; how work can provide a home for the homeless spirit; what is meant by the household economy; and how the founders of one of Britain's most iconic businesses constituted their entire enterprise around the idea of partnership, akin to the family home. A research on work-based identity suggests that it is a construct that emerges from complex interactions between individuals, groups and social contexts along three dimensions: life spheres, life roles and work facets. As considered in the noetics of nature, derived from Byzantine understanding, there are far deeper depths below the surface of identity-at-work. For Bruce Foltz, with a particular focus on the ancient thought and spirituality of Byzantium–which is still a living tradition in the Orthodox Christian East–important insights and realisations can be found that will shed an indispensable light upon what it would take to sustain a happier, more salutary relation between humanity and earth.
