wage labor
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- wage labour (Canada, UK)
Noun[edit]
wage labor (countable and uncountable, plural wage labors) (American spelling)
- Labor that is sustained by giving the laborer a wage.
- 1972, Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, 1st edition, page 24:
- The system of wage labor is a system of slavery, and indeed of a slavery which becomes more severe in proportion as the social productive forces of labor develop, whether the worker receives better or worse payment.
Translations[edit]
labor sustained by wages
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