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"Welfare, if not survival, came to depend on the willingness of someone to hire one's labor power [...] With no recourse to property, and no state to which human needs can be directed, the market becomes to the worker a prison within which it is imperative to behave as a commodity in order to survive", s. 36, de-commodification in social policy