Wage-ceiling law alienated workers from the Jacobins

Evidence

The law of the maximum fixed a ceiling for food prices and for wages, and drove a wedge between the Jacobins and the workers. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1948

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Price and wage controls split the Jacobins from the working class; Public employers chose pay and sanctions over restructuring alienating work — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 598
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Price and wage controls split the Jacobins from the working class; Public employers chose pay and sanctions over restructuring alienating work — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 598

Broader Connections

  • Price and wage controls split the Jacobins from the working class #corroborates (1.00)