Right to work

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Right to work is the concept that people have a human right to work, and may not be prevented from doing so. Article 23.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:

“	Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.	”
—Universal Declaration of Human Rights

[edit] Criticism

Paul Lafargue, in The Right to Be Lazy, wrote: "And to think that the sons of the heroes of the Terror have allowed themselves to be degraded by the religion of work, to the point of accepting, since 1848, as a revolutionary conquest, the law limiting factory labor to twelve hours. They proclaim as a revolutionary principle the Right to Work. Shame to the French proletariat! Only slaves would have been capable of such baseness."

Article 40 of 1977 Soviet Constitution stated:

“	Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure. This right is ensured by the establishment of a working week not exceeding 41 hours, for workers and other employees, a shorter working day in a number of trades and industries, and shorter hours for night work; by the provision of paid annual holidays, weekly days of rest, extension of the network of cultural, educational, and health-building institutions, and the development on a mass scale of sport, physical culture, and camping and tourism; by the provision of neighborhood recreational facilities, and of other opportunities for rational use of free time. The length of collective farmers' working and leisure time is established by their collective farms.	”
—1977 Soviet Constitution

[edit] See Also

• droit au travail ("right to work" or "right to have a job"), a left-wing, social claim made by the French Left, first during the July Monarchy and which became an important debate matter during the Second Republic
• Right-to-work law, US legislation which prohibit trade unions from making membership or payment of dues or fees a condition of employment enforced on a state by state basis
• Protestant Work Ethic

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