Introduction
The Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines “Dignity” as “the quality or state of being worthy, honoured, or esteemed”. “Labour” is defined in the same Dictionary as “expenditure of physical or mental effort; human activities that produce the goods or services in an economy; services performed by workers for wages…”
Dilating on the concept: “Dignity of labour,” the Wikipedia states: “The dignity of Labour is the philosophy that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior and none of the job should be discriminated against on any basis.
One of the causes of the present problem of large scale educated unemployment is the spirit of aversion to manual labour. It is better being employed in menial jobs or to perform any lawful manual or physical labour than remaining idle in the face of scarcity of jobs. Moreover, becoming an entrepreneur as to create lawful occupation or career and doing it with interest, commitment, fervency, diligence and above all, with utmost self-respect and dignity produces lasting benefit to the individual, families, the community and the society at large. As we take time to consider this subject in the light of the Holy Scriptures in the days ahead, we will appreciate the fact that Dignity of labour is a source of strength of personal character born out of independence, self-reliance and worth by the grace of God.