Wage slavery
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 19th century female workers in Lowell, Massachusetts were arguably the first to use the term "wage slave" |
Wage slavery refers to a situation of quasi-voluntary slavery where a person's livelihood depends on wages, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. It is a negatively connoted term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor, and to highlight similarities between owning and employing a person. The term wage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops), and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy. The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their "species character" not only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution.
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| André Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason and the Wa... André Gorz, Critique of Economic Reason and the Wage Slavery,1989 www.antenna.nl/~waterman/gorz.html - Web |
| Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery www.whywork.org - Web |
| Essay on Societal Slavery Essay on Societal Slavery web.archive.org/web/20060214144545/newslavery.org/ - Web |
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