A Topic of Moral Theology

Labor Disputes

Strikes, breach of the contract of work, and what masters and workmen owe each other in a dispute.

In the index as Buying and selling · Contracts · Employers · Labor · Laborers · Lock-out · Price · Sales contracts · Selling · Strike · Workers

In the manuals

Moral Theology: A Complete Course (McHugh & Callan)

Vol. II, Pt. II, Q. III, Art. 2. Duties of Members …, Labor Disputes, n. 2649 — Labor Disputes between Employers and Employees. Labor Disputes between Employers and Employees.—(a) In themselves these disputes are indifferent, as they are a species of industrial war (see 1380 sqq.) or of industrial self-defense (1826 sqq.). If the end, the means a… Read in context →

A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Vol. V, Pt. I, Ch. V, Section 5: The So-Called Onerous Contracts, nn. ¶25, ¶26, ¶27, ¶28, ¶29, ¶30, ¶31, ¶32, ¶33 & ¶34 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)

Summa Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. III, Question Two: On Letting a…, Article III: On the Letting of Services, or On the Contract of Labor, nn. 556 & 557 (19 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Duties of Masters and Servants — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910) · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Tanquerey · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)