UN General Assembly
1982

who carries it out is a person, a conscious and free subject, that is to say, a subject who decides about himself." And here the Pope of the workers pauses to emphasize the subjective dimension of work, rising from its dignity: "... the basis for determining the value of human work is not primarily the kind of work being done, but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person." 114. Equally enlightening are some other thoughts which I shall now sum up. First, rejection of "materialistic and economistic thought", which equates work with goods and is the source of unheard of, inhumane exploitation, even today, when the concept of capitalism at any cost has been tempered. Hence, a different approach must be adopted-one which comprehends the working man: "... in accordance with the true dignity of his work-that is to say,... as subject and maker, and, for this very reason, as the true purpose of the whole process of production." Secondly, the strengthening of worker solidarity, not only because