These attempted to fix wages at pre-plague levels, making it illegal to refuse work or to break an existing contract, imposing fines on those who transgressed.

The Minimum Wages Act of 1948 empowers government to fix minimum wages for people working across the economic spectrum.

The Trade Boards Act 1909 created industrial panels to fix minimum wages.

Meanwhile, real wages declined, despite attempts to fix minimum real wages, at least around Nairobi.

County committees were established with the power to fix wages, together with a central wages board to supervise the county awards.

This for the first time established boards representing employers and workers to fix minimum wages in the largely ununionized 'sweated' industries.

The guild regulated economic life, fixing prices and wages and seeing that goods were manufactured by reliable and well-trained persons.

Another tactic was to fix prices and wages so that peasants could not demand more with increasing value.

Legislation was also passed in 1947 and 1948 which established a permanent Agricultural Wages Board to fix minimum wages for agricultural workers.

Powers were given by the acts of 1368 and 1388 to justices to determine matters under these statutes and to fix wages.