Liberalism and Confucianism both bind you together in a form of justice which takes on an enlightened understanding of the other, rather than a simple modus vivendi.
In aggregate all the employment just represents society. There is a difference between engaging services and employing someone, and the heavy preference for engaging a human as services is part of the problem. It is no different from engaging a human as a good. If we all play by the same rules, then the contours of the market are not unfairly balanced toward one player. The market and social life are not distinct; contract law should protect all stakeholders as you mentioned.
There is a right to work under the responsibility to protect. Industry structure that produces a permanent underclass is a form of violence, and class warfare.