[Download] "Right-To-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, And Quality of Life (Report)" by The Cato Journal # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Right-To-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, And Quality of Life (Report)
- Author : The Cato Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 244 KB
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The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed by the classical liberal writers of the Enlightenment and beyond is individual choice and right of expression--the right of persons to say what they think, decide for themselves what groups that want to join, what religion that want to profess, what person they want to marry, what goods they want to buy or sell, and what persons they want to represent them where necessity requires collective decision-making. One important economic dimension of individual liberty is the right to sell one's labor services without attenuation--that is, without limits on the terms of the agreement (e.g., wage rates and hours of work), or who will represent the worker in reaching those terms. The eroding of employment liberty in the United States had begun before the 1930s, with various sorts of state laws restricting hours and setting minimum wages, but in 1930 America was still largely governed by an employment-at-will standard where employers and employees could freely "truck and barter," to use Adam Smith's phrase, without major outside interference.