"最低工资的立法,是基于“道德”考虑" ? wiki on minimum wage: A minimum wage is the lowest daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers. Equivalently, it is the price floorbelow which workers may not sell their labor
It is a serious national evil that any class of His Majesty's subjects should receive less than a living wage in return for their utmost exertions. It was formerly supposed that the working of the laws of supply and demand would naturally regulate or eliminate that evil [...and...] ultimately produce a fair price. Where... you have a powerful organisation on both sides... there you have a healthy bargaining.... But where you have what we call sweated trades, you have no organisation, no parity of bargaining, the good employer is undercut by the bad, and the bad employer is undercut by the worst.... where those conditions prevail you have not a condition of progress, but a condition of progressive degeneration." Winston Churchill MP, Trade Boards Bill,