Industrial Revolution

rerum novarum, pope pius, unions etc etc

Factory Commission Report 1833 - Child Exploitation

Whole families are employed… children of six and seven years of age are dragged from their beds at 2, 3, or 4 o’clock in the morning.

1 Corinthians 12:26 - Unions

If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.

Genesis 1:27

So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them

Luke 6:20

Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

RN §3

By degrees it has come to pass that working men have been given over, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition.

RN §40

The most important of all duties is to save the soul and not to neglect eternal salvation for the sake of temporal advantages.

RN §20

It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to look upon them merely as so much muscle or physical power.

RN §6

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own

RN §34

If through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or contractor will give him no better, he is made the victim of force and injustice.

RN §57

No one may with impunity outrage the dignity of man, which God Himself treats with great reverence,

RN §32

To defraud anyone of the wage due him is a great crime that calls down avenging wrath from Heaven

RN §59

The oppressed workers, above all, ought to be liberated from the savagery of greedy men, who inordinately use human beings as things for gain.