Archive:Catholic social teaching
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WCP: Class and the Dignity of Work
In January, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown kicked off his “Dignity of Work” tour through states that will play key roles in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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Shared Values: A Report on AFL-CIO and Catholic Conference Activity in the State Legislatures
The labor movement in the United States shares many values with the Catholic Church, with each supporting living wages for workers, the right to join and form unions, and the defense of our immigrant
Categories: Just Employment Policy, Publications, Reports
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WCP: Religious Liberty (Not) For All
Religious freedom claims have significant deference in the U.S. legal system, and they have increasingly come into conflict with the rights of workers. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Ken Estey warns that a failure to balance religious liberty with public welfare undermines the common good.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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KI Director Reflects on 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Exactly 125 years ago, in 1891, the industrializing world was going through a traumatic transformation that should seem familiar to us today: new technologies were transforming work; people were being uprooted by economic process from the lands of their birth and their traditional ways of life and drawn to the centers of the new economy, fleeing the collapsing worlds their parents had known and seeking new and better ones; millions of immigrants, emigrants, and migrants were crossing borders and seeking new homes; cities were growing and their problems were multiplying; tensions were emerging as cultures clashed; xenophobia was ignited (in the US it took the form of the American Protective Association, which sought to ban Catholic immigrants to this country); inequality was surging as some reaped enormous, unprecedented, and obscene profits from the new economy while others suffered egregious exploitation.
Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy, Our Staff
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Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and on Campus
This year marks the 125th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (new window), Pope Leo XIII’s pivotal 19th century encyclical that laid the foundation for Catholic teaching on labor and the dignity of work. More than a century later, these principles remain profoundly relevant to our society and our campus community on the Hilltop.
Categories: Events, Just Employment Policy
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OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 19, 2016)
The week's best labor stories assembled, hyperlinked, and summarized here for your convenience. Game-changer. Just as we were editing our obituaries for the American labor movement, the sudden deat
Category: In the News
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OVERTIME: Labor Stories of the Week (Feb 5, 2016)
Some of the best labor stories of the week gathered, summarized, and hyperlinked for your convenience. Have a great weekend! Captive no more? 106 labor scholars recently petitioned the National La
Category: In the News