A Topic of Moral Theology

The Wage of Workers

The just wage: the proportion owed between labour and its pay, and the abuse of a workman's need.

In the index as Wage · Salary · Wages · Workers · Salary of workers · Leasing · Capital · Cessation from work (strike) is often harmful to workers and masters · Companies to be instituted for helping workers · Contracts · Labor · Lease-Hire · Leo XIII., quoted · Right of association is vindicated · Strikes · The wages of workers · Arbitration as a mode of composing dissensions between masters and workers · Colleges of workers (syndicats ouvriers · Colony · Conciliation · Education of children · Employer · Equity (epieikeia) · Family

In the manuals

Commentaries on the Nature of Moral Theology, on Conscience and Probabilism, on the Fourth Precept, and on the Sixth and Ninth Precepts of the Decalogue (Commentarii)

Bucceroni, Commentaries (1910), Third Commentary: On the F…, XI. On Masters and Workers, nn. 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165 & 166 (16 passages — hover a number to read it)

Institutions of Moral Theology (Institutiones Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, On the Seventh and Tenth P…, XIV. On Hiring and Leasing, nn. 1204 & 1206 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology

Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part II — Chapter II: On Contracts in Particular, nn. 813–863 (51 passages)

A Handbook of Moral Theology (Koch–Preuss)

Vol. V, Pt. I, Ch. V, Section 5: The So-Called Onerous Contracts, nn. ¶18, ¶19, ¶20, ¶21, ¶22, ¶23 & ¶24 (7 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manuale Theologiae Moralis

Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. IV, Ch. II, Art. II, § 3. On Letting and Hiring, nn. 310 & 312 (2 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. 552, 553, 554 & 555 (55 passages — hover a number to read it)

Compendium of Moral Theology

Vol. I, Tr. IX, Pt. II, Sect. II, Chapter III. On Hiring and Leasing, nn. 549, Q. 2 & 549, Q. 3 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I

Slater, Cases I, The Fourth Commandment, Case 6. Not a Living Wage, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8 & ¶9 (9 passages — hover a number to read it)

Socialism: Its Theoretical Basis and Practical Application

Ch. III, Section II: The Iron Law of Wages, nn. ¶608–¶622 (15 passages)

Cathrein, Socialism, Appendix, Encyclical Letter of Pope Leo XIII On the Condition of Labor (Rerum Novarum), nn. ¶977–¶1048 (72 passages)

A Brief Text-Book of Moral Philosophy

Chapter V: Rights of Ownership in Material Property, nn. 189, ¶386, ¶387, 190, ¶389, ¶390, ¶391, 191, ¶393, 192 & ¶395 (11 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading The Contract of Work and Labour — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · 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.)