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| | #REDIRECT [[Wage slavery]] |
| '''Wage slavery''' is a term used to describe a situation where a person's livelihood depends on [[wages]] or a [[salary]], especially when the wages are low and person has few realistic chances of upward mobility.<ref name="merriam-webster.com">{{cite dictionary|title=wage slave|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wage%20slave|dictionary=[[Merriam Webster|merriam-webster.com]]|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary|title=wage slave|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wage%20slave|dictionary=[[dictionary.com]]|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref>
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| The term is used to criticize [[exploitation of labour]] and [[social stratification]], with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labour and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in [[sweatshops]] or in the [[Gig worker|gig economy]])<ref>{{Harvnb|Sandel|1996|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=_KdrTfTxqvgC&pg=PA184 184]}}.</ref> and the latter as a lack of [[workers' self-management]], fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.<ref name="globetrotter.berkeley.edu">{{cite web|url=http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Chomsky/chomsky-con2.html|title=Conversation with Noam Chomsky|page=2|publisher=Globetrotter.berkeley.edu|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref><ref name="HB">{{Harvnb|Hallgrimsdottir|Benoit|2007}}.</ref><ref name="spunk.org">{{cite web|title=The Bolsheviks and Workers Control, 1917–1921: The State and Counter-revolution|url=http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html|publisher=[[Spunk Library]]|access-date=4 March 2013}}</ref>
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| The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a [[Social hierarchy|hierarchical]] society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that [[Marx's theory of alienation|deprives humans]] of their "[[Gattungswesen|species essence]]"<ref>{{Harvnb|Avineri|1968|p=142}}.</ref> not only under threat of [[starvation]] or [[poverty]], but also of [[social stigma]] and [[Social status|status]] diminution.<ref name="Fitzhugh 1857">{{Harvnb|Fitzhugh|1857}}.</ref><ref name="schalkenbach1">{{Harvnb|George|1981|loc=[http://schalkenbach.org/library/henry-george/social-problems/sp15.html "Chapter 15"]}}.</ref><ref name="globetrotter.berkeley.edu" /> Historically, [[Socialism|socialists]] and activists have advocated for the socialization of the productive forces of society to reduce the alienation of the worker.<ref name="HB" /><ref name="Geoffrey Ostergaard p. 133">{{Harvnb|Ostergaard|1997|p=133}}.</ref>
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Marxist terminology]]
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