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This argument must have originated with the employers of home labor, and not with the home laborers themselves.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This argument must have originated with the employers of home labor, and not with the home laborers themselves.”
Editor's note · Context
He suggests that the justification for protectionist policies comes from employers rather than laborers.
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