In this volume, we publish a series of essays, speeches and institutional acts dedicated to the protection of workers' rights. These fundamental rights, which are non-derogable and in part also non-transferable, form the common thread running through Carlo Smuraglia's thinking, both in his earlier essays, in which the author develops a genuine doctrine of workers' rights, and in his more recent works, which update and adapt these rights to technical progress and the changing working conditions of recent years. The writings are accompanied by draft laws presented by Carlo Smuraglia aimed at ensuring respect for the dignity of the working person, such as those on sexual harassment, the protection of atypical jobs and the promotion of work for prisoners, as well as the fact-finding investigation into the implementation of Law No. 125/1991 on gender equality in the workplace.