Working Life and
the ‘Priority of Labour over Capital’
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4.1 EXPERIENCE OF WORK
4.1.1 Introduction: following the ‘pastoral spiral’ in this unit
4.1.2 Your work – past, present, future
4.1.3 Different ‘sectors’ of work
4.1.4 Issues in working life
4.1.5 What this unit is about and not about
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4.2 RERUM NOVARUM
4.2.1 Revisiting the historical context of Rerum Novarum
4.2.2 Rerum Novarum – introduction
4.2.3 RN, part 1: A natural right to private property (##4-15)
4.2.4 RN, part 2: The role of the Church in teaching and charity (##16-31)
4.2.5 RN, part 2, continued
4.2.6 RN part 3: The role of government in ensuring just working conditions (##32-47)
4.2.7 RN, part 4: Workers have a right to form associations/unions (##48-61)
4.2.8 Rerum Novarum: summing up
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4.3 LABOREM EXERCENS
4.3.1 From Rerum Novarum to Laborem Exercens
4.3.2 Laborem Exercens: preface and introduction (##1-3)
4.3.3 Work as for the human person (##4-7)
4.3.4 Worker solidarity (#8)
4.3.5 Work, dignity and society (##9-10)
4.3.6 The priority of labour over capital (##11-12)
4.3.7 Questions for discussion half way through unit
4.3.8 The critique of ‘economism’ and ‘materialism’ (##13-15)
4.3.9 ‘Rights of Workers’ (##16-23)
4.3.10 ‘Elements for a Spirituality of Work’ (##24-27)
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4.4 CST ON WORK: ASSESSMENT AND ACTION
4.4.1 Summary and review of Laborem Exercens
4.4.2 General assessment of CST on working life
4.4.3 Christian action for workers’ rights
4.4.4 Review and discussion of Unit 4
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