Rights and Duties of Labor according to card. Gibbons. A precedent of Rerum Novarum?

Abstract

Sommario: 1. The social problem of labor. a) A brief historical development of the social problem. b) Labor abuse and monopolies. c) The birth of labor unions: strikes and boycotts. 2) The rights of workers and of labor. a) Labor’s right to organize. b) Right to just remuneration and humane working conditions. c) Right to kind and considerate treatment. 3) The duties of the workers. a) Obey all lawful authority. b) Strive for harmony between labor and capital. 4) The role of the Church in the social question. a) The moral authority of the Church to speak the truth to the rich and the poor. b) The Church as friend, mother and protectress of the workers. c) The Church’s duty to protect the faith of the workers. 5) Rights and duties of labor recapitulated.