Dignity of Work Vocab

a salary that recognizes the value of the work being performed and that is high enough to allow the laborer and his or her immediate family to live a life of human dignity

• labor

• capital

• just wage

• development

an organized work stoppage whereby workers refuse to work in order to gain public support and to pressure their employer to address their rights

• socialism

• strike

• free market

• Laborem Exercens

to help provide the social structures that are necessary so a person or group of people can build a life of dignity and respond to their vocation according to God's call

• development

• capitalism

• free market

• labor

is a style of life directed towards “having” rather than “being”. It is a “web of false and superficial gratifications.” -Pope St. John Paul II

• free market

• socialism

• capitalism

• consumerism

is a term for an arrangement designed to help producers in developing countries achieve sustainable and equitable trade relationships

• fair trade

• just wage

• development

• Rerum Novarum

A Vatican document from Pope Leo XII that addresses the Church's right to speak on social issue and promotes the rights and just treatments of workers

• Rerum Novarum

• Laborem Exercens

• fair trade

• strike

(1) the material thing needed to create a product or provide a service

                  (2) the money needed to start a business 

                  (3) the human skills and knowledge necessary for a business to be successful. 

• labor

• capital

• strike

• consumerism

a market system in which individuals and businesses are free to create and sell whatever goods and services they wish to sell at whatever prices they wish to change

• fair trade

• capital

• socialism

• free market

an economic system based on the private ownership of goods and the free-market system

• socialism

• capitalism

• labor

• development

 Vatican document from St. Pope John Paul II on the rights of workers and emphasizes that people are more important than profits or things they make

• Free market

• Rerum novarum

• Laborem Exercens

• Fair Trade