Harold J. Laski: “Yet if he is deprived of security in employment he becomes the prey of…”

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Yet if he is deprived of security in employment he becomes the prey of a mental and physical servitude incompatible with the very essence of liberty.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski highlights the necessity of job security for true liberty, warning against mental and physical servitude.

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