The argument in effect is that a living wage is a matter of such serious indirect consequences to society that it cannot be safely left to the parties directly concerned, owing to the fact that immediate need may incapacitate one party to the transaction from effective bargaining.
Dewey argues that the consequences of wage negotiations extend beyond the immediate parties, necessitating public oversight.
Share
More from John Dewey
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous…
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.