The ILO's Concept of Decent Work in the Light of the Social Teaching of the Church and its Relevance to Nigeria

Owing to many ills which have enveloped the world of work, the ILO came up with a concept: decent work. This work sets out to examine the extent to which this concept is founded on the basic principle that in labour it is man who comes first, a principle that has been clearly brought out by Christian social ethics. Nigeria - having a great share of socio-economic and other woes - parades a world of work that is caught up in the mud of problems. This work attempts to identify and analyse them with a view to finding solutions based on the said co ...