People will try to break the system regardless, but I think 99% of the people are decent (or calculative take your pick) when it comes to bigger issues. I think the fear for abandoment is bigger then the need for succes, we are social creatures after all. When the lower classes organised they weren't a threat, workers enough for the big bosses, but they got big enough to get their moral appeal across. Take away the protection by law and we will probably see a shortlived drawback to the situations in the early 1900's, how long do you think that will last? They can't get away with it because of what we already established. Here in the netherlands employers and employees are called 'social partners', we are all socialists at heart that's why we don't need socialism.