Labor & the Catholic Church

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Real Revolutionists

Dorothy Day writes a dispatch from a December 1932 convention of farmers in Washington, D.C., lobbying for emergency legislation in the face of the Depression.

By Dorothy Day

January 11, 1933

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‘This Economy Kills’

The economic ideology favored by people like Arthur Brooks is utterly incompatible with Catholic social teaching; it is a rock of shipwreck.

June 5, 2017

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The Bundist Rabbi

An organized pursuit of justice is both Michael Feinberg’s work and his passion.

By Fran Quigley

January 2, 2021

Social Justice

Jewish-Christian Relations

Politics

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“Rerum Novarum” and Labor

Collective bargaining is not a right that can be forfeited at will—it is intrinsic to recognizing the dignity of the worker.

By W. F. Kernan

August 6, 1937

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Bringing the Workers on Board

Codetermination, or the practice of including workers on corporate boards, is not only deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition; it aids democracy in the workplace.

March 14, 2019

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Houses of Hospitality

Unemployment is a grave emergency today. Workers of the world are being lost to the Church. As lay apostles and "other Christs," this is our responsibility.

By Dorothy Day

April 15, 1938

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Catholics in Trade Unions

Christian labor leadership is impossible if there are no Christians trained to be leaders; here is an answer to the problem.

By John C. Cort

May 5, 1939

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A May Day Saint

Charismatic, combative, and silver-tongued, Fr. Thomas Hagerty waged a life-long struggle for the working class, all while remaining “as Catholic as the pope.”

April 30, 2023

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Labor, Management and the Public

The National Catholic Welfare Conference's Labor Day statement on collective bargaining and the public interest.

By National Catholic Welfare Council

September 16, 1960

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Priesthood and Revolution

The church is a revolutionary movement, and priests are revolutionary leaders. But they carry the revolution further than Marxists.

September 1, 1968

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Christians & the class struggle

Liberation theologians impose the European abstractions of Karl Marx onto the Latin American peasant, neglecting democratic principles and common sense.

By John C. Cort

July 11, 1986

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From Catholic Worker to DSA

Labor leader, socialist, journalist, and Catholic convert, John Cort devoted his adult life to writing about and organizing for workers’ rights.

May 6, 2020

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Stop Protesting, Start Organizing

In his new book on labor, Thomas Geoghegan—a longtime labor lawyer in Chicago—lays out many of the depressing ways that American workers have been moving backward.

September 9, 2015

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Sharing the Prosperity

The American labor movement has been pushed back on nearly every front. Its revival is the key to reducing economic inequality and fostering shared prosperity.

June 7, 2016

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Feeding the Economy, Starving Society

For many who work, their employment is precarious to the point of affecting their housing opportunities, marriage and family decisions, and general peace of mind.

September 29, 2016