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Leo XIII: Working people

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Summary

The Eleven Laws of Protection for the Working People by Leo XIII (1891):

 

1.     To rest on Sunday connected to religious observation.

2.   To be protected from the cruelty of men of greed.

3.   To work a reasonable number of hours.

4.   To rest and break based on job requirement and season.

5.   For women to have a job according to their strength.

6.   For children to have a proper developed body and mind before starting their working life.

7.     To leisure proportional to the wear and tear of his strength.

8.   To a decent wage to support at least a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

9.   To have social agents to regulate and intervene in clear cases of injustice and the role of the state to sanction and protect.

10. To earn enough for himself, his wife and children and to save money.
11. To ownership and private property.

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