social justice
(en)
justice that follows collective ideas of fairness, correctness and reciprocity, concedes demands for a minimum livelihood irrespective of economic performance or productivity, and recognizes civil and human rights to such things as health, social security, participation in the life of the community, employment protection and trade union organization; determined by cultural norms and is based on status rather than contract
Two competing principles of distribution were institutionalized in the political economy of postwar democratic capitalism: what I shall call market justice on the one hand and social justice on the other.
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