Coincidence, synchronicity or symbiosis? Catholicism and the work of the ilo
| Autor | Paul Beckett |
| Cargo | Head of Corporate and Commercial at Quinn Legal |
| Páginas | 159-194 |
Revista Derecho Social y Empresa nº 3, Julio 2015
ISSN: 2341-135X págs.159-191
COINCIDENCE, SYNCHRONICITY OR SYMBIOSIS?
CATHOLICISM AND THE WORK OF THE ILO
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PAUL BECKETT
Head of Corporate and Commercial at Quinn Legal
Fecha de recepción: 18-06-2014
Fecha de aceptación: 26-08-2014
SUMARIO
: 1. PREAMBLE. 2. INTRODUCTION. 2.1. Human rights and
religion. 2.2. Assumptions to be tested. 3. METHODOLOGY. 4. THE
SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS – APPARENT PARALLELISM. 4.1. The origins,
mission and objectives of the ILO as a human rights body. 4.2. Conditions in work.
4.2.1. Wages. 4.2.2. Working conditions. 4.3. The Papal Encyclicals and other
Vatican documentation. 4.3.1. The nature of CST and the role of the Church in
relation to human rights. 4.3.2. Conditions in work. 4.3.2.1. Wages. 4.3.2.2.
Working conditions. 5. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF CROSS-INFLUENCE. 5.1.
International Labour Conferences 1919 to 2013 – philosophical interdependence
leading to solidarity? 5.2. The Jesuit presence at the ILO. 5.3. Express references to
human rights in general and relating to labour and to the work of the ILO in
particular, in relevant Papal Encyclicals (and other Vatican documentation). 6.
COINCIDENCE, SYNCHRONICITY OR SYMBIOSIS? 7. AFTERWORD.
RESUMEN
: En este estudio se analizan las similitudes entre la Enseñanza Social
Católica (CST) y los pronunciamientos de la OIT (ILO) partiendo de la hipótesis de
que existe un aprendizaje, o se han dejado convencer mutuamente. Se analiza en qué
medida se ha producido un vínculo consciente entre lo secular y lo teológico y esta
semejanza se deriva de procesos autónomos, que reaccionan de forma independiente a
las condiciones en la sociedad, de manera que los paralelismos son coincidencia o
responden a una categorización selectiva vinculada, aunque no necesariamente, a
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conceptos independientes o a respuestas normativas derivadas de las presiones sociales.
El paralelismo y la influencia cruzada se revisa en el caso del CST en la Encíclica del
Papa León XIII De Rerum Novarum (1891) y en el "IHRL from the ILO Preamble of
1919". Se concluye que la sincronización entre CST y la OIT (ILO) durante los
últimos cien años se ha revelado como una simbiosis sustantiva.
ABSTRACT
: This study tests the assumption that if CST, and the
pronouncements of the ILO evidence striking similarities, that each must have learned
from or been swayed by the other. It reviews to what extent there has been a conscious
link between the secular and the theological, and whether what appears to be
synchronicity are on closer examination merely self-contained processes of
development, reacting independently of the other to conditions in society, such that
perceived parallelisms are coincidence or the selective categorising of linked though
not necessarily interdependent concepts or normative responses to societal pressures.
The extent of the parallelism and cross-influence is reviewed in the case of CST from
the issue of the Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII De Rerum Novarum (1891) and of
IHRL from the ILO Preamble of 1919. The conclusion drawn is that perceived
synchronicity between CST and the ILO during the past hundred years has revealed
itself to be substantive symbiosis.
PALABRAS C LAVE
: Derechos Humanos; la doctrina social católica; OIT.
KEYWORDS
: Human Rights; Catholic Social Teaching; ILO.
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1. PREAMBLE
In a time long passed, when our present was his distant future, Pope Leo XIII
wrote:
It is not rash to conjecture the future from the past. Age gives way to age, but the
events of one century are wonderfully like those of another04""
Is history repeating itself, as history is thought will not do?
Today, the crisis is deepening. Inequality in the world is growing because of the
persistence of precarious labour conditions. In the new international scenario the
values of work and production have changed. When financial capital rules, it is
always the workers’ loss, and inequalities are always aggravated.5
Dazu kommen in unserer Gesellschaft sozialdarwinistische Tendenzen; für sie gilt
das Recht des Stärkeren und die rücksichtslose Durchsetzung eigener und
eigennütziger Interessen. Diejenigen, die nicht mithalten können, geraten leicht
unter die Räder und zwischen die Mühlsteine. Vor allem im Zug der
Globalisierung der Wirtschaft und die Finanzmärkte sind unkontrollierte
entfesselte neokapitalistische Kräfte mächtig geworden, für die Menschen und
ganze Völker oft ebarmungslos zum Spielball der eigenen Gier nach Geld
geworden sind.6
The world of 1931 faced, and that of 2014 faces, challenges which are
indistinguishable one from another.
[1931] [I]t is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an
immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands
of a few [who act] according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. (…) This
dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the
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