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