
About the relationship between workers’ rights and human rights / Mansour Esanloo

The history of the emergence of laws in contemporary times can be examined from two perspectives: that of the people and that of governments. What needs led to the formation of laws and the establishment of rights for the people?
With the growth of tools and production and the emergence of capitalist formations, a new class of producers has emerged and expanded in the sphere of human life. This class, with its workforce, meets the needs of other humans under the management of capitalists and sells its labor during production. This means that it gives some of its life to the capitalist and receives wages from him, but the wages it receives do not provide for its livelihood, so it enters into negotiations with the employer to receive more wages. These conversations, which have continued in various forms since the time of land ownership and feudalism, have included requests, pleas, cries, conflicts, protests, strikes, and even burning of land and the homes of landlords and the killing of millions of people. Different methods of negotiation and conversation between workers and employers, peasants and landlords have been used during this time.
During the period of changing production methods, conflicts arise in which the condemned masses, meaning the people, are involved, and boundaries are automatically set that no one has previously determined. For example, over time, owners pass laws about forests and natural resources and prohibit wood harvesting and tree cutting by farmers and ordinary people, but the need forces workers and farmers to use the forests, leading to conflicts that eventually result in contracts formed after decades and centuries of struggle and conflict between the two sides. These contracts take the form of local, regional, provincial, and national agreements, each of which represents a right based on the balance of power between the two sides, the forces between them, and the history of their conflicts, as well as the promises and agreements made between previous generations. In other words, the collection of laws and rights that exist today are based on a long, difficult, and complicated process, influenced by the specific conditions of each region, location, and country, and then expanded nationally and globally,
In continuation of this process of globalization, we see that gradually in the 18th and 19th centuries, a massive volume of struggles and fights in various fields such as labor, agriculture, intellectual, enlightenment, national, civil, take shape, each of which creates new issues and leads the way to new wars alongside the old ones. As a result, individual, group, urban, rural, regional, and national laws and rights are drawn towards global and international laws and rights. The complicated and tumultuous process of human evolution is summarized in the development of theories and growth of theoretical aspects in all human fields. Theoretical discussions take their place in human affairs, approving laws and collective negotiations take place around the negotiation table. The result of these rights and acceptance of various rights in relation to the rights of every human being expands to the global scope of human rights, and definitions of individual rights are based on social and political struggles and, after the process of social, economic, and class revolutions,
In this way, through internal class and labor struggles over the past three to four centuries, basic rights have been recognized as the rights of workers, farmers, and all people. These include the fundamental right of every individual to freedom, the right to equality for all humans, the right to benefit from the gifts of nature and society, the right to ownership of one’s destiny and the fruits of one’s labor and efforts, the right to travel so that every person can go anywhere to continue their work and life, and the fundamental rights of freedom of the press, expression, assembly, and demonstration, as well as the right to work and employment, the freedom to choose a profession, and the right to have unions and political parties, among other rights. These rights have emerged from within scattered communities and rural estates, forming strong urban connections and complex urban relationships. Of course, all of these achievements are the result of major changes in production tools, methods, work issues, and production relationships. They have
Since the owners of power and wealth have never needed to struggle throughout history to achieve their desires and have often disregarded the rights of others, these labor laws and human rights are generally the result of the daily and continuous struggle of all workers, laborers, intellectuals, and scientists. All of humanity’s progress and resistance against oppressive forces have played a role in its formation and in finding a delicate balance, with each of its engines contributing to the growth of production, relationships, and changing living conditions for humans, as well as the growth of awareness, insight, and the design of new needs for all of us as humans. After World War II and as a result of the horrific consequences of both World War I and II, which were responsible for the suffering, death, destruction, torture, massacre, oppression, racism, and all the other tragic and anti-social phenomena, the representatives of the victorious forces against fascism, sought to understand the needs of all human beings by drafting numerous conventions within the International Labor

In general, the process of social, economic, political, and organizational struggle has played a role in the formation and adoption of these rights, alongside the effective forces in the production and distribution of wealth in the world. Rights such as having housing, health care, education, work, food, clothing, alongside the right to freedom of expression, media access, access to news and information, and the dissemination of individual and group opinions, as well as the freedom to travel, freedom to have or not have a religion, or to change it, and the acquisition of a new nationality and choosing to live in another land, having or not having a family, freedom in decision-making for one’s personal destiny, and respecting the individual rights of people with regard to their sexual, cultural, and social choices, which are the general framework for these achievements, are all part of the struggle for equal rights and opportunities for all individuals. This struggle has become even more complex and difficult with the help of computer technology and
In the current situation, where global financial elites and powerful market owners have turned all human achievements into numbers, codes, and symbols in the stock markets, the economic arena has become a kind of gambling house on a global scale. Capital has spread throughout the world in its most intense and extensive form, and invisible monopolies in the financial, media, military, and propaganda spheres have shaped public opinion worldwide. Every moment, all the people who have access to a laptop or a slightly advanced mobile phone are aware of any event happening on the planet, through Google, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter, as well as traditional news websites and news agencies such as Reuters and Associated Press, and visual media networks such as BBC, ABC, CNN, and NBC provide them with a more universal access. In fact, global public opinion, as well as national public opinion in each country, is influenced by the heavily strengthened domestic media. All the realities and truths, and sometimes very important information related to the fate of billions
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Monthly magazine number 41

