Labour Rights and the Catholic Church – The International Labour Organisation, the Holy See and Catholic Social Teaching
本书通过法律与历史视角，探讨天主教会与国际劳工组织的关系，揭示宗教在塑造劳动法内容及其伦理基础中的建设性作用，填补了现有研究的空白。
In contemporary labour law, the relationship between workers’ rights and religion is most commonly discussed against a backdrop of conflict. Typical scenarios concern individual workers who seek accommodation of their religious practices within a secular workplace, or alternatively organisations with a religious ethos who seek to impose requirements on their workers related to the maintenance of that ethos. In today’s legal literature, there are relatively few explorations of the ways in which religion might play a constructive role in shaping the content of labour law, or at least influencing its underpinning ethical values. This book addresses that gap through a legal and historical exploration of the relationship between the Catholic Church and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). As such, it provides a genuinely new and insightful contribution to our existing knowledge. It sheds new light on a neglected area of inquiry. In so doing, it invites the reader to reflect...