Coercive wage offers
Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 10, no. 2, 1981, pp. 121–145
Abstract
Is the wage bargain in a capitalist labor market coercive if the worker is limited to a choice between two unpalatable alternatives, Working at a low-Paying job or starving? Robert Nozick says no, on the grounds that capitalists are acting within their rights. This presupposes that coercion is an essentially moral concept. I argue that this analysis
