sentences:  The best workmen could not, in a fixed-wage economy, be undercut by an inferior worker or product.In the preface to "Unto This Last" (1862), Ruskin recommended that the state should underwrite standards of service and production to guarantee social justice.This included the recommendation of government youth-training schools promoting employment, health, and 'gentleness and justice'; government manufactories and workshops; government schools for the employment at fixed wages of the unemployed, with idlers compelled to toil; and pensions provided for the elderly and the destitute, as a matter of right, received honourably and not in shame.