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'''Wage slavery''' refers to a situation where a person is dependent for a livelihood on the wages earned, especially if the dependency is total and immediate.<ref name="merriam-webster.com">[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20slave wage slave - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wage%20slave wage slave - Definitions from Dictionary.com]</ref> The term is used to draw an analogy between [[slavery]] and [[wage labor]]. Some uses of the term may refer only to an "[un]equal bargaining situation between labor and capital,"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_KdrTfTxqvgC&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183 p.184 Democracy's Discontent By Michael J. Sandel]</ref> particularly where workers are paid unreasonably low wages (e.g. [[sweatshops]]). More controversially, others equate it with a lack of [[workers' self-management]]<ref name="globetrotter.berkeley.edu">[http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html]</ref><ref name="socialissues.wiseto.com">[http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/161500532/]</ref><ref name="spunk.org">http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html</ref> or point to similarities between [[slavery|owning]] and [[employment|employing]] a person, and extend the term to cover a wide range of employment relationships in a [[social hierarchy|hierarchical]] social environment with limited job-related choices (e.g. working for a wage under threat of [[starvation]], [[poverty]] or [[social stigma]]).<ref>[http://reactor-corentingre.org/cannibals-all.html Full text of CANNIBALS ALL! OR, SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS., by George Fitzhugh (1857)]</ref><ref name="schalkenbach1">[http://schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/sp15.html Robert Schalkenbach Foundation]</ref><ref>[http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html Conversation with Noam Chomsky, p. 2 of 5]</ref> | '''Wage slavery''' refers to a situation where a person is dependent for a livelihood on the wages earned, especially if the dependency is total and immediate.<ref name="merriam-webster.com">[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20slave wage slave - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wage%20slave wage slave - Definitions from Dictionary.com]</ref> The term is used to draw an analogy between [[slavery]] and [[wage labor]]. Some uses of the term may refer only to an "[un]equal bargaining situation between labor and capital,"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_KdrTfTxqvgC&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183 p.184 Democracy's Discontent By Michael J. Sandel]</ref> particularly where workers are paid unreasonably low wages (e.g. [[sweatshops]]). More controversially, others equate it with a lack of [[workers' self-management]]<ref name="globetrotter.berkeley.edu">[http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html]</ref><ref name="socialissues.wiseto.com">[http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/161500532/]</ref><ref name="spunk.org">http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html</ref> or point to similarities between [[slavery|owning]] and [[employment|employing]] a person, and extend the term to cover a wide range of employment relationships in a [[social hierarchy|hierarchical]] social environment with limited job-related choices (e.g. working for a wage under threat of [[starvation]], [[poverty]] or [[social stigma]]).<ref>[http://reactor-corentingre.org/cannibals-all.html Full text of CANNIBALS ALL! OR, SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS., by George Fitzhugh (1857)]</ref><ref name="schalkenbach1">[http://schalkenbach.org/library/george.henry/sp15.html Robert Schalkenbach Foundation]</ref><ref>[http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html Conversation with Noam Chomsky, p. 2 of 5]</ref> | ||
