economic rights
Market participation guarantees
Economic rights are entitlements related to material well-being and financial security—the right to work, earn fair wages, own property, or access basic necessities like food and housing.
Distinguished from civil and political rights, economic rights emphasize what people need to live with dignity: The constitution guarantees economic rights including education and healthcare.
Often grouped with social rights in human rights frameworks.
- disability benefitsPayments for those unable to work
- fair wagesReasonable compensation for labor
- collective bargainingJoint worker-employer talks
- food securityGuaranteed adequate nutrition access
- healthcare accessAbility to obtain treatment
safety net · welfare state · intellectual property · education access · paid leave · childcare support · universal basic income · retirement pensions · anti-discrimination policies · class action · fair share · debt relief · minimum wage laws · unemployment benefits · asset protection · land ownership · resource allocation · job security
- human rightshuman dignity, civil liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, fair trial
- Economic Fairnessequal pay, fair wages, fair pay, pay equity, wage gap
- Economic Philosophyfairness, equality, efficiency
- free marketsfree market, free enterprise, free trade, free markets, laissez-faire
- copyrightcopyright, copyright law, copyright act, copyright office, copyright notice
- socialist lawone-party rule, party control, state ownership, public property, expropriation
economic rightscivil liberties
Rights limiting government power
political rights · civil rights · cultural rights · voting rights · freedom of speech
economic rightseconomic exploitation
Profiting through others' disadvantage
wage slavery · serfdom · dispossession · propertylessness · labor exploitation
economic rightsneoliberalism
Pro-market, anti-regulation ideology
plutocracy · command economy · state ownership · corporatism · oligarchy