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The IUP Journal of Law Review :
Right to Work as a Fundamental Right in India: An Overview
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The right to work means that people have a human right to work or engage in productive employment and may not be prevented from doing so. The right to work is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and recognized in international human rights law through its inclusion in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, where the right to work emphasizes economic, social and cultural development.The preamble to the constitution secures social, economic and political justice to all citizens of India. The same resolve is more elaborately repeated in DPSP which, among others, specifically require the state to minimize the inequalities in income and to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities as well as to direct its policy towards ensuring that "the ownership and control of the material resources of the community are so distributed as best to sub-serve the common good" and that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment. At one time, FRs were having primacy over DPSP. But in recent times, some DPSP have transformed into and become an integral part of the named FRs under part III. Therefore, the sanction of the state or the judiciary is needed for the enforcement of DPSP.

 
 
 

The phrase “Right to Work” was coined by the French socialist leader Louis Blanc in light of the social turmoil of the early 19th century and rising unemployment in the wake of the 1846 financial crisis which led to the French Revolution of 1848. The right to property was a crucial demand in early quests for political freedom and equality and against feudal control of property. Property can serve as the basis for the entitlements that endure the realization of the right to an adequate standard of living, and it was only property owners who were initially granted civil and political rights such as the right to vote. Because not everybody is a property owner, the right to work was enshrined to allow everybody to attain an adequate standard of living. Today, discrimination on the basis of property ownership is recognized as a serious threat to the equal enjoyment of human rights by all and nondiscrimination clauses, and international human rights instruments frequently include property as a ground on the basis of which discrimination is prohibited.o as active open-minded thinking.

The right to work means that people have a human right to work or engage in productive employment and may not be prevented from doing so. The right to work is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and recognized in international human rights law through its inclusion in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, where the right to work emphasizes economic, social and cultural development.

 
 
 

Law Review Journal, Environment, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), Right to Work, Fundamental Right, Economic, Social, Unemployment, Cultural Rights, India