Work and Human Fulfilment

Catholic social teaching has been described as the best kept secret of the Church. This is particularly regrettable, now that the Catholic Church is one of the few global voices to uphold the 'primacy of labour over capital.' Rapid transformations in the world economy mean that growth, productivity, and profitability are no longer closely associated with increases in employment. This raises pressing questions. What is clear is that the 'neo-liberal consensus' does not even endorse full employment as a desirable goal, let alone deliver it.

Nearly everywhere, the 'right to work' is challenged by the growth of unemployment. In turn, the concentration of joblessness among the young, the unskilled, and those in the Third World threatens the linkages that the Church has constantly stressed - between employment and human dignity and between work and human fulfilment.

In Work and Human Fulfilment, members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and their colleagues explore these recent changes in the world of work. They examine what policy options could serve to re-express the fundamental tenets of the Church's Social Doctrine on work and employment in this new economic context.

Work and Human Fulfilment, by Edmond Malinvaud and Margaret S. Archer.
336 pages, clothbound. ISBN 0 9706106 5 3.
£47.95 .
Published by Sapientia Press.
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