wage labor

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wage labor (countable and uncountable, plural wage labors) (American spelling)

  1. Labor that is sustained by giving the laborer a wage.
    • 1972, Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, 1st edition, page 24:
      The system of wage labor is a system of slavery, and indeed of a slavery which becomes more severe in proportion as the social productive forces of labor develop, whether the worker receives better or worse payment.

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