Rerum Novarum and the Right to Work: 19^th-Century Lessons for 21^st-Century Labor

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1. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming.

2. I owe a great deal to Brian Dijkema, Program Director of Work and Economics at Cardus, and Ray Pennings, Executive Vice-President of Cardus, for conversation and inspiration on this argument. Both have worked widely in the labor world, and continue to be among Canada’s leading authorities on open shop and alternative unions.

3. See for example Stanely Carlson-Thies on this, and his Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance (IRFA), now merged with the Center for Public Justice (as of September 2014).

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Robert Joustra

Robert Joustra (Ph.D., University of Bath) is Associate Professor of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University College (Toronto, Canada). He is an editorial fellow with The Review of Faith & International Affairs, and a fellow with the Center for Public Justice (Washington, DC). His most recent book is The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom: Why Foreign Policy Needs Political Theology (Routledge, Religion & Politics Series, 2017).