Now I was seeing the other side of the analysis: that some people were workers because they had nothing to sell but their labour. There was no neutral analysis of the “right” salary someone should be paid; there was only relative bargaining power, and a skewed balance of power would spring up all sorts of excuses to justify that imbalance. And capital, in its strength, had no compunction about taking everything it could from its workers in exchange for the means of bare existence. Workers who unionised were doing the only thing they could to protect themselves from a much more powerful force,
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