wagedom

English

Etymology

wage +‎ -dom

Noun

wagedom (uncountable)

1. The practice of hiring workers for wages.
   • 1880, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, The Claims of Labour, Or, Serfdom, Wagedom, and Freedom, page 47:

     At the other end, we have workers in the coal and iron trades demanding wages varying with employers' profits. The first represents the transition from serfdom to wagedom; the second the transition from wagedom to freedom.

   • 1908, The New Ireland Review - Volume 29, page 135:

     We may minimize it as we may by exaggerating our notions of the due rewards of enterprise ; but if we take the ethical idea of partnership as our concept of wagedom, if we look on human labour as a merchandise, we cannot logically resist the conclusion that capital, in part at any rate, is the product of injustice.

   • 1892, Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread:

     Wagedom was not instituted to remove the disadvantages of communism; its origin, like that of the state and private ownership, is to be found elsewhere.