Dignity of labour

The dignity of labour is the philosophy that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior and none of the jobs should be discriminated on any basis. Regardless of whether one's occupation involves physical work or mental labour, it is held that the job deserves respect. Simply put, any form of work, manual or intellectual, is called labour and respecting any kind of job (manual or intellectual) is called "dignity of labour".

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Social reformers such as Basava and his contemporary Sharanas, as well as Mahatma Gandhi, were prominent advocates of the dignity of labour.^[1]

The dignity of labour is one of the major themes in Christian ethics,^[2] and as such, it is upheld by the Anglican Communion,^[3] in Catholic social teaching, in Methodist principles,^[4] and in Reformed theology.^[5]

In Roman Catholicism, usually titled "The dignity of work and the rights of workers" the affirmation of the dignity of human labour is found in several papal encyclicals, most notably Pope John Paul II's Laborem Exercens, published September 15, 1981.^[6]

See also

• Critique of work
• Decent work

References

Further reading

Books

• Hodson, Randy (2001). Dignity at Work. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77812-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=HwVKKFDfIeMC. 
• Lamont, Michèle (2009). The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-03988-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=ehXs95d-BU4C. 
• Gomez, Napoleon (2013). Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico. BenBella Books. ISBN 978-1-939529-26-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=Mws3EAAAQBAJ. 
• Bal, Matthijs (2017). Dignity in the Workplace: New Theoretical Perspectives. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-55245-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx8vDwAAQBAJ. 
• Willen, Sarah S. (2019). Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-5134-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=coq5DwAAQBAJ. 

Journals

• Spencer, T (13 January 1844). "Dignity of Labour". Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (2). https://www.proquest.com/openview/32b6b5d9dad28a3d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=374. 
• Devas, C S (October 1887). "The Rights and Dignity of Labour". The Dublin Review 18 (2): 467–469. https://www.proquest.com/openview/5461d8518dc47de9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=394. 
• Sarkar, Santanu (2007). "The Struggle to be a Part: Story of Dignity of Indian Labour". The Indian Journal of Labour Economics 50 (2). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275715674. 
• King, Barry (2010). "On the new dignity of labour". Ephemera Journal 10 (3/4): 285–302. http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/new-dignity-labour. 
• Nkosi, Lethiwe (2011). "Kenneth Kaunda : the dignity of labour". African Yearbook of Rhetoric 2 (3): 61–66. https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/EJC168753. 
• Ban, Wang (2019), Sorace, Christian; Franceschini, Ivan; Loubere, Nicholas, eds., "Dignity of Labour", Afterlives of Chinese Communism, Political Concepts from Mao to Xi (ANU Press): pp. 73–76, ISBN 978-1-78873-476-9, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvk3gng9.14 

Articles

• "The Dignity of Labor". July 2, 1853. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dignity-of-labor-1853-07-02/. 
• Blackie, J S (January 1879). "The Dignity of Labour". Good Words 20: 837–840. 
• Somavia, Juan (31 March 2015). "Valuing the dignity of work". https://hdr.undp.org/en/content/valuing-dignity-work. 
• Jones, William P. (Summer 2020). "The Dignity of Labor". https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-dignity-of-labor. 

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