The employer is, in the nature of things, neither the religious guide, the political guide, nor the intellectual guide of his workpeople.…
Yves Guyot, “The Socialism of Employers,” The Tyranny of Socialism (1894), p. 229 – 230.
The workmen are under only one obligation with regard to their employer, and this is the performance of the productive labour for which they receive their wages. If the employer wishes to exact anything beyond this, he is guilty of an error. He invites servility, revolt, or hypocrisy; and is preparing for himself a terrible return.
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