As Dawley said: "In any marketplace transaction, buyers and sellers have opposing interests. As buyers of labor, manufacturers had a common interest among themselves which was opposed to the common interest of workers, as sellers. If the wage bargain between manufacturers and workers had been mutually beneficial, then the conflict of interest would have been historically insignificant. But the bargain was unequal."30 The question then arises: were there other, more compelling interests outside the economic sphere?