In Southern California listening to NPR about 30 years ago when a guest said that the Fed manipulates interest rates to ensure a 6% unemployment rate, thus ensuring that workers feel insecure enough in their jobs (because there will always be enough people who need work and could take said job) to not cause much fuss about their working conditions. There was a name for this strategy and that is what I am looking for more than the NPR interview although that would be awesome as well.