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face for being the first-ever female cabinet member and for pushing what was then considered a radical socialist agenda: a forty-hour workweek, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, a ban on child labor, and health insurance, among other policies meant to benefit workers.2 It was a role Perkins felt compelled to
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most pernicious enemy.” The problem was that Hayek was considered conservative, yet acknowledged there could be an important role for government-sponsored health care, unemployment insurance, and a minimum wage. “Here is where the whole case is given away,” Rand noted in her copy of The Road to Serfdom. Addressing Lane, she compared
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and similar labor legislation reduce incentives for the unemployed to find work. He provided evidence that unionized labor and the adoption of minimum-wage and living-wage laws actually increases the unemployment rate. Finally, he offered a c^e study on Henry Ford's famous $5 workday as an example of higher productivity and
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labour effort per unit of time. Marx argued that the tendency of capitalist development was to generate a ‘reserve army’ of unemployed labour that would keep wages at a culturally determined minimum—the dark side of market forces —while giving capitalist employers the power to extract high levels of labour effort, and hence
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