Lutheran Resources For Worker Justice

Here's a pdf by IWJ about the Reformer Martin Luther's thoughts on the importance of fair economics and treating workers well, as well as the Lutheran churches advocacy for workers.

https://www.wpusa.org/Interfaith-Council/Resources_Lutheran.pdf

Luther clearly sees from the perspective of an independent producer, a small businessman, whose experience of being robbed by the powerful is primarily connected to price gouging. However, the heart of his accusations would apply equally to the modern multinational corporations that seek profit at the expense of people not primarily by raising prices but rather by lowering wages. The core violation of “using the market according to his caprice as though it were his fair privilege and right” is as characteristic of WalMart as it was of the noblemen of Luther’s time.