“the country enjoyed a measure of prosperity and pay rises”
Benefits of a higher wage.. Hell, what are the benefits of being payed for your labor at all? Let’s just be slaves. Take a factory, an owner sits in his office and most likely manages the distribution of the products. Now I’m sure any worker can pick up a phone and call a store and arrange a deal, the owner reaps an insane amount of undeserved profit. Without the workers there is no business. The same cannot be said about the owner.
Renting yourself to another human is no different then being owned by another human.
Unacceptable working hours.
I don’t see how private property contradicts with “collective ownership of the means of production”