Editing Right to work (section)

==History==
The phrase "the right to work" was coined by the French [[socialism|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 up to the [[French Revolution of 1848]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Robertson |first=Priscilla Smith |date=1952 |title=Revolutions of 1848: A Social History |url=https://archive.org/details/revolutionsof18400robe |url-access=registration |quote=Right to work. |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/revolutionsof18400robe/page/69 69] |isbn=9780691007564}}</ref> 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 ensure the realisation of the [[right to an adequate standard of living]] and it was only property owners which 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.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Alfredsson| first = Gudmundur|author2=Eide, Asbjorn | title = The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a common standard of achievement| publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Publishers| year = 1999| page = 533 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FmuoB-BlMvEC&q=%22right+to+property%22| isbn = 978-90-411-1168-5}}</ref> Today discrimination on the basis of property ownership is recognised as a serious threat to the equal enjoyment of human rights by all and non-discrimination clauses in [[international human rights instruments]] frequently include property as a ground on the basis of which discrimination is prohibited (see the [[right to equality before the law]]).<ref>{{Cite book| last = Alfredsson| first = Gudmundur|author2=Eide, Asbjorn | title = The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a common standard of achievement| publisher = Martinus Nijhoff Publishers| year = 1999| page = 372 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FmuoB-BlMvEC&q=%22right+to+property%22| isbn = 978-90-411-1168-5}}</ref>

The right to work, but also a duty, was placed in [[Constitution of the Soviet Union|constitutions of the Soviet Union]].<ref>Article 118 of the [[1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union | 1936 constitution]]; article 40 of the [[1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union | 1977 constitution]].</ref>