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The fundamental right to work, as the right to freely chosen and accepted work and to just and favorable conditions of work, should lead to the individual and social emancipation of workers, avoiding the risk of harmful work. Modern states, as stakeholders in the balance of power between trade unions and employers' organizations, adopt labor laws as a common area of dynamic interaction between freedom of enterprise and the right to decent working conditions. However, the legal right to a job, crucial to the fulfillment of one's potential, often seems to be narrowly interpreted as the “duty-right” to work, a conception that should be transcended in order to ensure individual and social emancipation. According to the International Bill of Human Rights and International Labor Standards, the first fundamental legal principle to avoid the risk of harmful work is the freedom to choose one's work from a broad spectrum of roles, across all areas of society, that are recognized, promoted, and protected. The second such principle that can help curb the risk of harmful work is the right to the enjoyment of “decent” or “just and favorable” working conditions.