... pyramid, it can surely be argued that governments even in capitalist states take steps to regulate the actions of companies in a neoliberalist society. The idea of a national minimum wage and set maximum working hours are two examples of such intervention, and while such notions are indisputably necessary and in keeping with the charitable element of human nature, they are, to the ... a 'tool of oppression' to subjugate the working proletariat. While the minimum wage today might be argued (rightly) to be insufficient, in 1959, the Terms and Conditions of Employment Act set the mini...

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