INTRODUCTION
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s a brief and noble document, just as relevant today as it was more than 70 years ago. Among the rights listed are those in Article 23, which begins, “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
There are reasons to celebrate the world’s progress since Eleanor Roosevelt led that effort to recognize basic rights for all. Extreme poverty has declined; basic education and healthcare are more widely available; and for all their flaws, modern business and nonprofit enterprises have raised the material well-being of humans at ...
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