"primacy of work" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the belief or value placed on the importance of work or one's job. Example: In our society, there is often a strong emphasis on the primacy of work, with many individuals prioritizing their careers over other aspects of their lives.
It's as if the sixties were really just beginning and also already pointing ahead to the seventies — the primacy of work life, the rise in the divorce rate, women's increasing power.
That's a particularly shortsighted policy when it comes to low-wage workers, many of whom struggle with family and personal needs and may not see eye-to-eye with their managers on the primacy of work.
Of course, those departments where ideas are taught that challenge the unquestioned primacy of work and profit — those pesky humanities and arts departments — are first in line for the biggest cuts, so fewer and fewer students will be exposed to truly challenging ideas.
In the end — with the vigilant Levin still agitating loudly and publicly for the primacy of his work — Kermit Bloomgarden surfaced as producer and Garson Kanin as director.
The primacy of their TV work no doubt meant Farrah Fawcett and Cory Monteith were sidelined at the 2014 Oscars (and presumably Rik Mayall this time around).
Danny Pearl's death should teach us something about our own vulnerability, about the primacy of life over work, about the need to take a deep breath before allowing competitive instincts to direct us down a dirt track toward an uncertain story on the other side of a checkpoint manned by drunken soldiers.
Following Weber, Lukács characterizes the bourgeois form of life in terms of the primacy of an ethics of work and inner strength.
/ I'm gonna burn it in the street, be so kind as let him know / that I'm dealing with this badly / and could he please get back to me?" When I wrote a Notebook about Moss in 2008, she was quick to stress the primacy of lyrics in her work.
Although the assembly decided not to officially endorse the confession written by Martin Luther for the occasion, the Schmalkaldic Articles, it was decided that a work discussing the primacy of the pope should be prepared since this subject had not been covered in the Augsburg Confession in 1530.
There are shibboleths that need to be challenged - the rigid nature of the work ethic, the primacy of jobs over care, maybe even the sacred pursuit of incessant growth at every level - but if, as Gordon Brown avers, this is going to be a government shaped by values, it should be ready to question everything.
According to Călinescu, Cerna's work stated the primacy of "natural ideas" over reasoning, and concluded that "ideas have the purpose of signaling the problematic tensions of the soul".
