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"Labour is not a commodity" is the principle expressed in the preamble to the International Labour Organization's founding documents. It expresses the view that people should not be treated like inanimate
commodities In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. The price of a comm ...
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capital Capital may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** List of national capital cities * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences * Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used f ...
, another mere factor of production, or resources. Instead, people who work for a living should be treated as
human being Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedality, bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex Human brain, brain. This has enabled the development of ad ...
s and accorded dignity and respect. Paul O'Higgins attributes the phrase to John Kells Ingram, who used it in 1880 during a meeting in Dublin of the British Trades Union Congress.O'Higgins, P.
'Labour is not a Commodity' — an Irish Contribution to International Labour Law'
(1997) 26(3) Industrial Law Journal 225-234


Law

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Clayton Act 1914 The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 (, codified at , ), is a part of United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime; the Clayton Act seeks to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipie ...
, which gave trade unions in the United States the freedom from paying penalties from courts for organising and taking
collective action Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their condition and achieve a common objective. It is a term that has formulations and theories in many areas of the social sciences including psych ...
* Versailles Treaty, establishing the International Labour Organization, Article 427 * Declaration of Philadelphia 1944, reestablishing the ILO under the United Nations and reaffirming the first principle that labour is not a commodity


See also

* Commodification of labour *
Fictitious commodities The concept of fictitious commodities (or false commodities) originated in Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi (; hu, Polányi Károly ; 25 October 1886 – 23 April 1964),''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2003) v ...
* Labor theory of value * Criticism of capitalism


References


External links

* International Labour Organization
Declaration of Philadelphia
(1944) Human resource management Labour movement Labour law {{labor-stub