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The Servile State Section 16
In which the nascent legal establishment of a minimum wage within a particular trade serves as a telling example of the broader shift from free contract to a society divided into defined economic classes, where security for labour is guaranteed but at the cost of diminished freedom to act. This episode further explores how such statutory measures, combined with compulsory labour and state control over employment, subtly but inevitably advance the formation of what may be termed the Servile State.
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