Laborem Exercens

Laborem exercens is the first words of a Encyclique of the Pape Jean-Paul II published in 1981. “ It IS BY WORK that the man must get the daily bread and contribute to continual progress of sciences and technology, and especially with constant rise, cultural and moral, of the company in which he lives in community with his brothers. ”

Context of publication of the encyclical

Plan of the encyclical

Blessing

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Human work ninety years after " Rerum Novarum"

2. In the organic development of the action and the inseignement social one of the Church

3. The problem of work, key of the social question

II. WORK AND the MAN

4. With the Book of the Genesis

5. Work with the objective direction: the technique

6. Work with the subjective direction: the man, subject of work

7. A threat against the true hierarchy of the values

8. Solidarity of the workers

9. Work and dignity of the person

10. Work and company: family, nation

III. THE CONFLICT ENTERS LABOR AND CAPITAL THE CURRENT PHASE OF THE HISTORY

11. Dimension of this conflict

12. Priority of work

13. " Economisme" and materialism

14. Work and property

15. Argument personalist

IV. RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS

16. In the vast context of the human rights

17. Employer: " indirect" and " direct"

18. The employment problems

19. Wages and other social security benefits

20. Importance of the trade unions

21. Dignity of the agricultural work

22. The handicapped person and work

23. The work and the problem of the emigration

V. ELEMENTS FOR A SPIRITUALITY OF WORK

24. Particular role of the Church

25. Work like participation in the work of the Creator

26. Christ, the man of work

27. The human work in the light of the cross and of the resurrection of Christ

See too

social Doctrines of the Church

External bonds

the full text on the site of the Vatican

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