CB, I'll just pick up on your final point from a longer comment--
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^^^^ CB: It seems to me that workers going to the same job everyday for a long period of time and doing piecework instead of being paid hourly would be more likely to eventually think "how come the boss gets such a big chunk a change when we do all the work "
Yes, well, perhaps that's why U.S. industrial employers moved steadily away from piece rates over the course of the 20th century. I think the percentage of the workforce paid by the piece went from something like 75% in the 1920s to about 15% in the 1970s. Gil
