Dignity Of Work Research Articles

Sabbath, Contemplative Time, and Liturgical Listening

As we explore listening practices in global Catholicism, we have an opportunity to learn from spiritual traditions and their wisdom about stillness, receptivity, rest, and attention. This article focuses on Sabbath in dialogue with Jewish and Christian writings, particularly with regard to the dignity of work, sacred time, and receptive relationship to God and all of creation. Considering Catholic teachings on Sunday and Sabbath, I develop the idea of liturgical listening, arguing that the Eucharistic assembly can be a formative space for cultivating practices of listening together.

Dignity of Work and at Work: The Relationship between Workplace Dignity and Health among Latino Immigrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Latino immigrants living in the United States were highly vulnerable to the health and economic consequences brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the conceptual framing of workplace dignity, worth that is acknowledged based on performance of job responsibilities, to explore Latino immigrants' experiences during the early months of the pandemic. A qualitative study was conducted with La Clínica del Pueblo (La Clínica), a community health center serving low-income Latino immigrants. From June to December 2020, we conducted in-depth video interviews with 29 Latino immigrant clients to explore pandemic-related challenges, including workplace changes, discriminatory experiences, and effects on health. We conducted thematic analysis using Dedoose software. Nearly half of participants were undocumented immigrants. Most participants were unemployed or underemployed due to the pandemic and 26-49 years of age; one-third were still working, and one-quarter were 50 years or older. About half were cisgender women and two were transgender women. Employed participants experienced a lack of dignity through being socially isolated and stigmatized at work; receiving no compensation for their extra labor or for sick leave; and experiencing discriminatory labor practices. Unemployed participants experienced a lack of dignity in being the first to lose their jobs without government support; losing self-esteem; and not being rehired. Participants associated denial of dignity with worsening health conditions and increased anxiety and depression. Our study suggests that denial of workplace dignity-through job loss, underemployment, and poor working conditions-is linked to adverse health outcomes for Latino immigrants. More research should recognize workplace dignity as an important social determinant of health.

How much (more) is fair to pay? The ethics of merit in assessing poverty wages in organizations

Purpose This study aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of poverty salaries and minimum wage in light of virtue ethics and a new natural law perspective on work. Design/methodology/approach Existing approaches to poverty wages are critically examined, including the nonworseness claim and legal minimalism. This paper introduces a more nuanced framework, taking into account the concepts of merit and participation in light of virtue ethics. Findings We argue that the fairness of minimum wage policies can be assessed as a matter of contributive-distributive justice by considering individual contributions to an organization's outcomes within an approach that provides a robust foundation for reconciling the dignity of work with the operational realities of organizations. Research limitations/implications Empirical research is needed to validate the practical application of the proposed conceptual framework for addressing poverty wages. Practical implications The paper provides better decisional arguments for employers concerned with poverty salaries in their organizations considering the moral dimensions of wage policies and employee well-being, offering guidance for potential adjustments in compensation practices. It also contributes to the discourse on social and economic justice by emphasizing the moral obligations of organizations in fostering a just and dignified work environment without the employee's participation. Originality/value This paper presents a novel approach that blends virtue ethics and new natural law principles, emphasizing the moral responsibilities of employers and organizations in addressing the conditions of the working poor. It also highlights the potential for a “lesser evil” situation, morally acceptable when it serves as a transitional phase aimed at improving working conditions and employee well-being.

Protection of Honor and Dignity in Labor Relations

In the article we examined one of the current problems, the problem of protecting the honor and dignity of workers during their working life. A certain difficulty arises in applying this principle in practice; employers are increasingly restricting the rights and freedoms of employees. Gender discrimination is unacceptable, since a person’s biological characteristics should not be a determining factor when hiring. The solution to the problems of gender inequality in the Russian labor market should be carried out gradually, starting with recognition at the state level of the existence of this problem. We believe that this problem has existed for a long time and is inherent in every team, therefore it is imperative to develop effective means of protection not only at the legislative level, but also at the local level, which can consider the characteristics of all aspects of labor relations.

The dignity of work and the challenge of artificial intelligence

The Social Teachings of the Church define work as a “human act” (opus humanum), an “arduous good” (bonum arduum), and an expression of the intrinsic value and dignity of the human person. The right to work is not only granted by the State but rather a disposition of the value possessed by a person in fulfilling his/her “destiny and vocation” as a rational and autonomous being. However, the breakthroughs of modernity dichotomized the established value of humanity and his work. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on the way to altering this essential relationship, giving priority to Machine Intelligence (MI). This admiration of humanity for the proliferation of technical advances lurks a certain danger, “a danger as such” if I may use Heidegger’s term. The danger is not only the possible displacements of humanity in his/her work but rather an alienated individual stripped of his/her worth and dignity as a person who is the sole object of work. This paper argues that (1) the human person remains the indispensable subject of work and (2) artificial intelligence is problematic. To facilitate the said discourse, the work of John Paul II “Laborem Exercems” (John Paul II, 1981), shall be the guide in exploring the issue.

The dignity of work and the social economy in Portugal

Resumo O artigo tem como objetivo analisar sociologicamente como a economia social em Portugal estrutura as relações de trabalho. Definindo-se como centrada nas pessoas, e não no capital, a economia social reivindica um papel ativo na busca pela justiça social e pelo trabalho digno para todos, contribuindo para a democratização da economia. No entanto, a enorme diversidade de formas por meio das quais ela se apresenta exige uma análise mais detalhada das relações de trabalho em cada uma dessas formas, bem como uma atenção especial à diversidade dos contextos em que se desenvolveram. Por motivos pragmáticos, a análise se centra apenas nas organizações da economia social, e não nas da economia social e solidária, uma vez que, em relação às últimas, há muita informação, e elas representam um setor muito relevante na sociedade portuguesa, em razão de sua função, da capacidade de emprego e do dinamismo. A metodologia utilizada combina informações resultantes de estudos qualitativos com resultados de pesquisas com organizações. A conclusão revela um conjunto de dificuldades no reconhecimento de igual dignidade ao trabalho de associados e contratados. Isso se dá, de um lado, graças a um duplo processo de inclusão adversa das organizações na economia de mercado e sua institucionalização por meio de políticas de Estado; de outro, em razão de uma utilização excessiva e pouco dignificadora do trabalho assalariado no desempenho das tarefas das organizações, sem qualquer participação ou incentivo na sua gestão.

Telaah filosofis tentang keadilan kontributif dan Martabat kerja manusia serta implikasinya bagi Paradigma ekonomi

<p>Abstract This article aims to present the limitations of distributive justice theory as a conceptual foundation of the paradigm of the growth and prosperity in economy, and then proposing the idea of contributive justice and the dignity of human work as a new economic paradigm. Why is contributive justice important, and what is its relevance in the discourse of economic paradigm? By using the method of literature study and critical analysis, this article indicates that the idea of contributive justice is essential to overcome the lack of distributive justice. The distributive justice fails to understand that human labour is not only economic. Human labor is not just an instrument for consumption purpose. Human labour is essentially social and cultural. Based on the very idea of contributive justice, human labour is a source of individual self-social esteem, the way of contributing for common good and winning the social recognition from the society. Amid the global economic competition that intensifies the social and economic inequality, contributive justice offers the idea of dignity of human work as a new paradigm of economy. This article concludes that economic efforts in the 21st century, both in the global and in Indonesia, must consider<br />the dignity and value of human work.</p><p><br />Key Words : Distributive justice; contributive justice; economy; the dignity of human work.</p>

SDG commentary: economic services for work and growth for all humans

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to address United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs) 8 and 9 from a service perspective. SDG 8 is a call to improve the dignity of service work by enhancing wages, working conditions and development opportunities while SDG 9 calls upon nations to construct resilient infrastructures, promote inclusivity and sustainability and foster innovation.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a bibliometric review to extract important themes from a variety of scholarly journals.FindingsResearchers tend to investigate policy-level topics, such as national and international standards related to working conditions, while ignoring the experiences or well-being of workers occupying marginalized and low-opportunity roles in service organizations. Service researchers, educators and practitioners must collaborate to improve the state of service industries by conducting participatory action research, promoting grassroots organizing/advocacy, implementing digitized customer service and addressing workforce soft skills deficiencies.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors consider how service work can be transformed into respectable employment and present four specific ways nations can enhance their service industries.Practical implicationsEconomic planners can view SDGs 8 and 9 as a framework for understanding and promoting the well-being of service employees and accelerating the productivity and innovation levels of the service sector.Originality/valueThe United Nations’ SDGs are examined from a services perspective, which increases their significance in service-dominated economies.

“Quem pode ser a dona?”: Afro‐Brazilian women entrepreneurs and gendered racism

AbstractIn 2013, the number of Black entrepreneurs surpassed the number of White entrepreneurs in Brazil. Of those Black entrepreneurs, 30 percent were women. In Brazil, gendered racism often stereotypes Black women as domestic servants or hypersexual. Despite the robust literature on Afro‐Brazilians generally and Afro‐Brazilian women particularly, Afro‐Brazilian women entrepreneurs, their experiences, and their strategies for competing in the market and resisting gendered racism remain under‐theorized. I use semi‐structured interviews with Black women entrepreneurs to explain the relationship between gendered racism and Black entrepreneurship. My findings show that Afro‐Brazilian women entrepreneurs actively defy and redefine the standard images of entrepreneurs and Black women in Brazil. They contest the treatment of Black women as objects of the market by situating themselves as agentic players by challenging gendered racism through two entrepreneurial cultural strategies: (1) engaging in dignity work and (2) employing a women‐first imperative. By centering the experience of Afro‐Brazilian women, I contribute to the entrepreneurship literature, Africana Studies, and Latin American Studies.

Personal security and sustainable development at work

The objective of the work was to study the international aspects of the regulation of social and labor relations, with emphasis on global processes and their influence, on the part of international institutions, on the security of the individual and stable development in the work environment. The study used scientific methods such as: systemic analysis, comparison, functional historical, legal comparative and communicative. It was established that the sharp multiplication of global problems that have currently appeared before mankind requires consensual efforts of all members of the world community. In the conclusions it was stressed that all measures of the world community in terms of labor have to start from the true fact that it affirms the safety and dignity of work of each person as a fundamental value. Consequently, the category «security» should be considered not only as an abstract dominant of development of a certain spectrum of labor social relations, but also as a real reason for the valid assurance of each individual. Definitely, the guarantee of safety should be based on the active position of each separate individual, not only in the sphere of occupational safety and hygiene, but in all spheres of social relations.

Putting The Worker Front and Center by Honoring the Dignity of Work and Workers

Putting The Worker Front and Center by Honoring the Dignity of Work and Workers

ANALYSIS OF THE DECENT WORK AGENDA AND CHANGES TO THE LABOR CODE REGARDING THE VALUATION OF YOUTH IN THE LABOR MARKET

With the Dignity Work Agenda presented by the Government in 2022 and the Bill of Law n.º 15/XV, an attempt was made to frame the p roposed measures to value Young Work. Considering the guiding lines of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the Member States of the United Nations in 2015 in which Dignity Work and Economic Growth (8th SDG) are in the center. An attempt was made to assess which effective measures were advocated by the Portuguese Government with regard specifically to Youth Work, considering what is recommended in the Dignity Work Agenda and the respective Bill of Law. A framework of the 8th Objective recommended in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development where, analyze specifically the responses to achieve this objective that were implemented and subsequently, are analyzed and listed the measures presented in the Bill of Law n.º 15/XV, regarding Youth Work. The present study intends to approach and comment on the current Law n.º 13/2023, of April 3rd, which amended Law n.º 7/2009, of February 12th, which approved the current Labor Code, with regard to the rules dealing with Youth Work, given the current situation and the short period of time that occurred between the present analysis and the entry into force of the aforementioned amendment to the Labor Law, there is still no doctrine or jurisprudence that have addressed the analysis of the topic addressed in this study. The conclusions of that the Bill of Law n.º 15/XV and the current changes introduced by Law n.º 13/2023, of April 3rd, specifically regarding the Youth Work and the rest of the measures presented, are far way from what is necessary to promote a real policy of Youth Employment in Portugal and by consequence a policy of keeping the youngest generations in our country.

Szkoła pracy – aktualny namysł nad teorią i praktyką Janusza Korczaka i Marii Montessori

The aim of my research is depiction of philosophical context of thought and the art of Korczak and Maria Montessori, exploring their philosophical inspirations and references. I would like to present Korczak and Montessori as critical thinkers. The main research inquiry which I formulate in this article is whether reflections of Korczak and Montessori are current today, especially those concerning education, but also widely comprehended social life. However, in the article I also ask philosophical questions: What kind of world do we wish to show those, who will be here after us, the adolescents? Why do we work and fight? What is the most important for us? What is the meaning of our lives? The method of my research is comparison and comparative analysis of texts which constitute the source of further unassisted investigation. In conclusion I state that reflections of Korczak and Maria Montessori in the matter of value and dignity of work, as well as education for peace – still frequently depicted as controversial and perceived as exaggeration or utopia – refer to our contemporary times, in which humanity struggles with the problems of war, epidemic, nationalism, violence, poverty and exclusion. In reference to those two pedagogists, doctors and thinkers, we may assume that by understanding the past we build our future, as returning to their reflections and directions is connected with the matter of the future of children around the world. Currency and scientific innovation of the article consists in, on the one hand, in-depth philosophical reflection over the thought and art of Janusz Korczak, and on the other, particularisation of philosophical reflection in the field of upbringing.

პაპობის ხედვა ომისშემდგომ მსოფლიო მოწყობაზე -1942 წლის საშობაო უწყება

In December 24, 1942, Pope Pius XII made his famous Christmas Radio-message in which he talked about the world order in the postwar period. In his message, Holy Father emphasized the importance of internal harmony of the nations and focused on the prerequisites for world peace after the end of the Second World War (1939-1945). His vision was not merely political but covered various juridical and social aspects such as human dignity and rights, social cohesion and protection of family, dignity of work, restoration of juridical order and Christian concept of the state. As a result, the general vision of the Holy See meant that international relations and harmony within the nations are closely interconnected, especially as for peace in world

Analysis of Values in Rwanda Lower Primary Grade Children's Storybooks

This study examined the values embedded in Rwanda lower primary grade children’s storybooks accredited by Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB). The data sources are the stories in grade one, grade two and grade three. Sixty storybooks were analyzed qualitatively using content analysis. The data were analyzed in frequency (f) and percentage (%). The findings show that there are 40 values contained in the 60 analyzed storybooks. The results also show that many books contain human characters compared to non human characters. The percentages of the mostly presented values in the stories are as follows: ‘forgiveness’ (9.4%), ‘environment protection’ (7.8%), ‘friendship’ and ‘dignity of manual work’ (4% each), ‘cleanliness’ and ‘self-study’ (5.5% each), ‘house work duty’ (4.7%) and ‘happiness’, ‘peace’ and ‘helpfulness’ (3.9 % each). The least presented values in the stories, with the percentage of 0.8% each, are: ‘curiosity’, ‘flexibility’ ‘appreciation of cultural values’, ‘reverence of old age’; ‘justice’, ‘self-respect, ‘animal love’, ‘love of mother tongue’, ‘play’, courtesy’, ‘love’, ‘simple living’, ‘respect’, ‘prayer’, ‘courage’, and ‘democratic decision making’. However, there are some core values to be taught in Rwanda schools which were found absent in the studied stories: ‘patriotism’, ‘tolerance’ and ‘solidarity’. It was suggested that these core values absent as well as the least presented values be more presented in future storybooks since they are needed for helping Rwandan children to shape their identity as Rwandans.

The city eats the worker: migrant negotiations of COVID-19 and resistance amidst the COVID-19 crisis

ABSTRACT This essay draws upon a digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with Bangladeshi low-wage migrant workers in Singapore to theorize the COVID-19 outbreak in dormitories housing the workers as a crisis of the consuming city. Building on the concept of extreme neoliberalism, we examine the ways in which the erasure of worker voice as a technique of smart governmentality coded into the “Singapore model” underlies the pandemic outbreak. The in-depth interviews document the ways in which the poor infrastructures for migrant living are already always in crisis because of their exploitative design that maximizes profits while undermining the health, wellbeing, and dignity of workers. In this backdrop, the workers narrate strategies of resistance, enacted in articulations that resist and disrupt the smart propaganda crafted by the authoritarian state.

Using Photographs to Bring Dignity to Patients and Help Clinicians Find Meaning and Joy in Work.

Background: The importance of dignity in health care is well described, yet limited interventions exist to improve dignity, particularly patient-driven interventions. Objectives: To test the hypothesis that patient-selected photographs at the bedside would impact patients' sense of dignity and clinicians' sense of meaningful work, stimulate conversation between patients and clinicians, and serve as a visual and patient-driven complement to the Patient Dignity Question (PDQ). Methods: Patients admitted to three units at an academic medical center displayed photographs above their head of bed and were interviewed for this study. We used thematic content analysis to compare themes extracted from patient interviews, the PDQ, and clinician surveys. Results: Eight themes emerged from patient interviews (n = 19): conveying goals, joy, capturing the patient's spirit, faith and spirituality, sense of belonging, physical appearance and health, stimulating conversation and meaningful connections, and humanizing the patient. The same themes emerged from the PDQ, with the exception of physical appearance and health. Notably, analysis of the clinician surveys (n = 40) yielded six similar themes: conveying goals, joy, stimulating conversation and meaningful connections, humanizing the patient, meaningful work, and compassion and empathy. Conclusions: Patient-selected photographs at the bedside impact both patients and clinicians by stimulating conversation and meaningful connections, humanizing patients, and fostering meaning and joy in work. Photographs and the PDQ provide a similar window into personhood, thereby supporting the use of a photograph as a visual and patient-driven complement to the PDQ.

Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law in Postwar Texas Prisons

Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law in Postwar Texas Prisons

GODNOŚĆ jako wartość w wystąpieniach publicznych prezydenta Lecha Kaczyńskiego

Dignity is one of the elementary values in the axiological canon of Poles. It is equated with the fundamental right of every human being. This is confirmed by the language data presented in the article. Dignity is also one of the most important values in Lech Kaczyński’s presidential discourse. The dignity of the state and nation was of particular importance to him, followed by the dignity of workers. The aim of the article is to analyze dignity on the example of presidential public speeches in 2006-2009.

The dignity of work: An ethical argument against mandatory retirement

The dignity of work: An ethical argument against mandatory retirement