It has had to contend with a greedy middleman, unskilled workers, labor unrest, bad press and threatened suits.

FORBES: Labor Unrest

The mill owners were looking for a way to replace the workers with unskilled labor, and needed an automatic mule, which did not need to be controlled by the spinner.

NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

The dangerous confusion is, as so often in well-meaning economic rule-making, one of mistaking an ideal-utopian labor world (where even unskilled workers make a decent living from the get-go) with the world as it is: one where the value-creation of labor, not utopian ideals, sets the price.

FORBES: The Awful Minimum Wage

New technology will be introduced along with labor-saving capital investment, and skilled workers will tend to replace unskilled workers.

FORBES: The Minimum Wage Delusion, And The Death Of Common Sense