Wage slavery

Template:Slavery Wage slavery is a situation where the pay a person receives for work is so low it barely or doesn't cover their expenses. The worker's wages are used up to pay for their basic needs, and they are unable to earn more. This person then doesn't have any money left to save, or for the expenses of an emergency.

Wage slavery is caused when bosses have more power than their employees and pay them very little money. The term "wage slavery" is used by Marxists and other people who do not like capitalism.

Wage Slavery Media

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  Salary protest in the United Kingdom

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  Emma Goldman denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves".

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  African American wage workers picking cotton on a plantation in the South

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  Wage slavery

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  By the end of the 19th century, both the use of the term "wage slavery" and its meaning declined.

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  Profile of Adam Smith. The original depiction of Smith was created in 1787 by James Tassie in the form of an enamel paste medallion. Smith did not usually sit for his portrait, so a considerable number of engravings and busts of Smith were made not from observation but from the same enamel medallion produced by Tassie, an artist who could convince Smith to sit

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  Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884

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  Red Army troops attack Kronstadt libertarian socialist "wage slavery" critics who had demanded among other things that "handicraft production be authorized provided it does not utilize wage labour".

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