If there had never been a minimum-wage law passed -- if, as in the years before 1938, Americans today could be paid as little as employers could get away with -- and if, in 2013, someone in Congress proposed the first law ever that would guarantee workers a minimumwage.
With employers like Liu calling for a lower minimumwage, South Africa finds itself in a situation where it is desperate to create work, but unable to guarantee what the government considers decent pay.