The Wages Question: a Treatise On Wages And the Wage Class
The Wages Question: a Treatise On Wages And the Wage Class
Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
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And it is further CYident that it matters not, in the result, whether the total or partial immobility of labor be pro- duced by physical causes, by the force of positive law, or by fear, ignorance, or superstition. Any thing which de- ceives the sense of the Y^age-laborer or confuses his appre- hension of his own interest may be just as mischievous, in a given case, as bodily constraint. Following out this line of thought, we find that the wage-laborer may be put at disadvantage, I. By laws whi...ch act in restraint of movement or con- tract. Such laws may not be prohibitory, but merely regulative in their intention, and yet retard more or less seriously the passage from occupation to occupation, or from place to place. Even the mere necessity of registra- tion imposed must have an effect, ♦however slight, in the nature of obstruction ; and unless it can be shown^ that, by increasing the intelligence and confidence with which * See p. 169. Hosted by Google 304 THE WAGES QUESTION: changes of location or of occupation may be effected, it more than compensates for the degree of hindrance and irritation which the merest act of registration involves, it must be condemned as prejudicial to the wages class, whose supreme interest is the easy, ready flow of labor to its market.
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