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Most so-called free labour contracts today are one-sided, because one party's alternative is starvation
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- Hilaire Belloc Anglo-French writer and historian (1870 to 1953)
The vast bulk of so-called “free” contracts are to-day leonine contracts: arrangements which one man was free to take or to leave, but which the other man was not free to take or to leave, because the second had for his alternative starvation.
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↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org
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