The paper will be published in International and European Labour Law Commentary, edited by E. Ales, M. Bell, O. Deinert, S. Robin-Olivier, Nomos 2018.

The essay traces the history of the Declaration of Piladelfia, its "spirit" and its contents, highlighting the relevance of the text in a period in which the basic assumptions of the Declaration seem questioned, replacing the idea of Social Justice with a rampant economic value of the market.