Dignity at Work - How Americans Experience Work
On the occasion of the ILO’s centenary commemoration in 2019, a series of personal stories on how American’s experience work was launched. The purpose was to hear what work meant to these people and to their families across the U.S. as well as their hope for a better future.
The project was given further focus by the inspiring “All Labor Has Dignity” speech of Martin Luther King Jr. which was delivered on 18 March 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, to sanitation workers who were on strike. The following part of his speech brought this project into sharp focus.
The project was given further focus by the inspiring “All Labor Has Dignity” speech of Martin Luther King Jr. which was delivered on 18 March 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, to sanitation workers who were on strike. The following part of his speech brought this project into sharp focus.
You are demanding that this city will respect the dignity of labor. So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs, of those who are not in the so-called big jobs. But let me say to you tonight, that whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity, and it has worth."
Martin Luther King Jr.