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IOANNES PAULUS PP. II
LABOREM EXERCENS
To His Venerable Brothers
in the Episcopate
to the Priests to the Religious Families
to the sons and daughters of the Church
and to all Men and Women of good will
on Human Work
on the ninetieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum

1981.09.14

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• Blessing
• I. INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Human Work on the Ninetieth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
  • 2. In the Organic Development of the Church's Social Action
  • 3. The Question of Work, the Key to the Social Question
    
    
• II. WORK AND MAN
  • 4. In the Book of Genesis
  • 5. Work in the Objective Sense: Technology
  • 6. Work in the Subjective Sense: Man as the Subject of Work
  • 7. A Threat to the Right Order of Values
  • 8. Worker Solidarity
  • 9. Work and Personal Dignity
  • 10. Work and Society: Family and Nation
    
    
• III. CONFLICT BETWEEN LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN THE PRESENT PHASE OF HISTORY
  • 11. Dimensions of the Conflict
  • 12. The Priority of Labour
  • 13. Economism and Materialism
  • 14. Work and Ownership
  • 15. The "Personalist" Argument
    
    
• IV. RIGHTS OF WORKERS
  • 16. Within the Broad Context of Human Rights
  • 17. Direct and Indirect Employer
  • 18. The Employment Issue
  • 19. Wages and Other Social Benefits
  • 20. Importance of Unions
  • 21. Dignity of Agricultural Work
  • 22. The Disabled Person and Work
  • 23. Work and the Emigration Question
    
    
• V. ELEMENTS FOR A SPIRITUALITY OF WORK
  • 24. A Particular Task for the Church
  • 25. Work as a Sharing in the Activity of the Creator
  • 26. Christ , the Man of Work
  • 27. Human Work in the Light of the Cross and the Resurrection of Christ

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