The Review of Reviews for Australasia

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Excerpt from The Review of Reviews for Australasia: June, 1911It affords one some food for re¿cction. However. To find out that. Although in theory there is a power to decrease wages in every case which has come before my predecegor or myself the Court has had to inter fere by way of increase. The reason seems to be that the employer needs no court to enable him to reduce wages: he has simply to refuse to give employment at wages which he thinks to he too high. It ought to be frankly admitted that, as a rule. The economic position of the employee is too weak for him to hold his own in the unequal contest. The power of the employer to withhold bread is a much more effective weapon than the power of the employee to refuse labour. Freedom of contract in such circumstances is surely misnamed, it, should rather be called des potism in contract. And this Court. Is empowered to fix a minimum wage as a check on the despotic power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.