The inception of social law

Abstract

The capitalist socio-economic order grew out of the Enlightenment individualism, with the freedom of action of the unit. Idea of freedom referred both to personal freedom, private property and freedom of management. According to this concept the state should not interfere in the economy, especially in the social sphere. However, the realities of the nineteenth-century social and economic life differed from the idealistic assumptions and, therefore there were voices opting for a fairer distribution of manufactured goods, which in turn necessitated the development of social legislation, and socio-economic development of the competence of the state.