Opportunity or Privilege: Volume 4

by Charles W. Baird and Charles Washington Baird

Since the 1930s the United States has had a labor market that is heavily regulated. Wages are at least partially controlled by government imposed minimum wage laws. Laborers in most states are required to join unions in factories where they exist or else lose the opportunity of working there. Furthermore, both employers and employees lack the freedom to negotiate contracts on an individual basis when they are subject to compulsory unionism. Economist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113852932X
• ISBN13: 9781138529328
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 97 Pages