Wage slavery
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Wage slavery is a term used to criticize exploitation of labor by business. The situation of wage slavery can be loosely defined as a person's dependence on wages for their livelihood, especially when
Salary protest by the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union in the United Kingdom in January 2016
Emma Goldman denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves".
African American wage workers picking cotton on a plantation in the South
1913 comic comparing sweatshop conditions to slavery
Critique of work
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Critique of work or critique of labour is the critique of, or wish to abolish, work as such, and to critique what the critics of work deem wage slavery.
Wage slavery
…Industrial Revolution, thinkers such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery, and engaged in critique of work while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines. The introduction of wage labor in 18th-century Britain was met with resistance…
Paul Lafargue
Bertrand Russell, writer of In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Man with sign that roughly translates to: Bullshit job example from nature: President of the Republic of Slovenia
Friedrich Nietzsche