... members of the House of Lordsobjected to it on the grounds that ‘labour ought to be free’.Their argument said: the children want (and need) to work,and the factory owners want to employ them; what ... coming upwith the title, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism, while I was conceptualizing the book. WilliamGoodlad, my editor at Allen Lane, took the lead in the editorial work and ... labourregulation to be against the principles of the free market.Thus seen, the ‘freedom’ of a market is, like beauty, in the eyes of the beholder. If you believe that the right of childrennot to have to...