Dictionary

wage slavery en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The dependence on wages for survival.
   • Under the wage slavery system the wage slave selects his master, and he has got to find one or else he is carried down here to my friend, the jailer, and occupies a cell along side of myself. He is compelled to find one. 1886, Albert Richard Parsons, Address of Albert R. Parsons:
2. (derogatory, uncountable) Any form of employment with very low income.

Coordinates

chattel slavery

Relateds

poverty trap · minimum wage · wage slave · slave wage

Translations (2)

fr esclavage salarié (dependence on wages for survival) · de Lohnsklaverei (dependence on wages for survival)