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    This document summarizes Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed the exploitation of workers during the Industrial Revolution. It examines the situations of poor and working people, and calls on the Church, workers, employers, and public authorities to work together to build a just society. The document outlines a balance between labor and capital that respects workers' rights to property and fair wages, while also upholding employers' right to property and the need for their businesses to be productive.

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    This document summarizes Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed the exploitation of workers during the Industrial Revolution. It examines the situations of poor and working people, and calls on the Church, workers, employers, and public authorities to work together to build a just society. The document outlines a balance between labor and capital that respects workers' rights to property and fair wages, while also upholding employers' right to property and the need for their businesses to be productive.

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    This document summarizes Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, which addressed the exploitation of workers during the Industrial Revolution. It examines the situations of poor and working people, and calls on the Church, workers, employers, and public authorities to work together to build a just society. The document outlines a balance between labor and capital that respects workers' rights to property and fair wages, while also upholding employers' right to property and the need for their businesses to be productive.

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    Rerum Novarum

    Pope Leo XIII


    May 15, 1891

    History
    Pope Leo XIII
    The terrible exploitation and poverty of European and
    North American during the end of the 19th Century.
    The document was inspired by the work of the
    Fribourg Union, a Catholic Social Action movement in
    Germany, and by request form the hierarchy in
    England, Ireland, and the United States.

    Examines the situation of the poor people and


    workers in industrialized countries
    Role of the Church, workers and employers,
    and the law and public authorities in working
    together to build a just society.
    Employers are given the major role as agents
    for change.

    OUTLINE
    It has 64 paragraphs
    3 main topics
    The Balance between labour and capital
    The Common good or Role of the Church
    The Role of the state.

    Balance between Labour


    and Capital
    It is no easy matter to define the relative rights and mutual
    duties of the rich and of the poor, of capital and of labor and to
    provoke people which may lead to a revolt. (#2)
    For, every man has by nature the right to possess property as
    his own one of the chief points of distinction between man
    and the animal creation, for the brute has no power of self
    direction (#6)
    The wealthy and the working men are intended by nature to
    live in mutual conflict.
    Law of nature: Mans motive and reason in engaging in labor is
    to obtain property. (#9,5)

    Balance between Labour


    and Capital
    Workers Duties to give everyone his due

    (#20)

    to perform the work which has been freely agreed upon;


    never to injure the property,
    never to resort to violence in defending their own cause,
    Employer must never tax his work people beyond their
    strength

    Rich must refrain from cutting down the workmen's


    earnings, whether by force, by fraud.
    To defraud any one of wages that are his due is a great
    crime which cries to the avenging anger of Heaven.

    Balance between Labour


    and Capital
    Socialism must be rejected since it injures those whom
    should benefit.
    Inequality is far from disadvantageous. Social and public
    means can only be maintained by various capacity. Each
    man has a role. (#17)
    Capital cannot do without labor and labor cannot do without
    capital. (#19)
    When people go on strike or become voluntarily idle it is
    because work hours are too long or too toxic or because
    their wages are insufficient.

    Balance between Labour


    and Capital
    Cessation from work and labor on Sundays and
    certain Holy Days. (#41)
    10 commandments
    He rested on the 7th Day.

    Daily labor should be regulated.


    Works in hazardous places like mines and quarries
    shall have shorter work hours.

    Employee and Employer relations

    Summary
    Evidently,
    something must be done for the workers who are
    suffering
    guilds, which have disappeared, cannot protect
    the worker
    states and public institutions have rejected the
    faith
    wealth is in the hands of the few, which creates a
    new kind of slavery. (#3)

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