Economic development and equal freedom of work in the context of human rights
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5433/2178-8189.2014v18n1p217Keywords:
free market, human rights, social relations, economic policies, maximising profitsAbstract
The valorization of work and the effective satisfaction of the rights of workers as human rights reaches beyond the measures and interests established by economic agents, such as ordained by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Brazil. From this arises the role of the state, by means of its economic policies, to stimulate development in a dynamic equilibrium between forces of the free market and social progress. When the logic of the market becomes dominant in social relations, seeking to maximize profits at the cost of the exploitation of labor in total disregard of human dignity, social retrogression appears patent.