That paper aims to assess the impact of Christianism on trade union movement. Using an historical framework, we study, initially, the roman-catholic teaching on labour. Then, we approach the various versions of Christian socialism and Christian democracy within trade unions and study their...

State is an essential actor in Employee Relations (Farnham and Pimlott, 1995). It not only legislates the institutional framework on employtment relationship (Godard, 1994), but acts as an employer as well. Moreover, the State plans and implement various economic and social policies concerning...