en.unionpedia.org

Wage slavery, the Glossary

Wage slavery is a term used to criticize exploitation of labor by business, by keeping wages low or stagnant in order to maximize profits.^[1]

205 relations: Abolitionism, Abolitionism in the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Adam Smith, African Americans, Age of Enlightenment, AK Press, Alfred A. Knopf, American Civil War, American Journal of Sociology, Anarchism, Anarcho-capitalism, Anarcho-syndicalism, Aristotle, Artisan, Austrian school of economics, Autonomy, Beau Friedlander, Bourgeoisie, Buenaventura Durruti, C. L. R. James, Caitlin Rosenthal, Cambridge University Press, Carole Pateman, Catholic Church, Cato Institute, Cicero, Confederate States of America, Confederation, Continuum International Publishing Group, Corporate propaganda, Criticism of capitalism, Critique of political economy, Critique of work, Cultural hegemony, David Ellerman, David Graeber, De Officiis, Debt bondage, Dehumanization, Democracy Now!, Dictionary.com, Diggers, Dimitrios Roussopoulos, Distributism, E. P. Thompson, Ecco Press, Elite, Elsevier, Emerald Group Publishing, ... Expand index (155 more) »
Criticism of work
Ethically disputed working conditions
Slavery by type

Abolitionism

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.

See Wage slavery and Abolitionism

Abolitionism in the United States

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

See Wage slavery and Abolitionism in the United States

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

See Wage slavery and Abraham Lincoln

Adam Smith

Adam Smith (baptised 1723 – 17 July 1790) was a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.

See Wage slavery and Adam Smith

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

See Wage slavery and African Americans

Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

See Wage slavery and Age of Enlightenment

AK Press

AK Press is a worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in publishing books about anarchism and the radical left.

See Wage slavery and AK Press

Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915.

See Wage slavery and Alfred A. Knopf

American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

See Wage slavery and American Civil War

American Journal of Sociology

The American Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences.

See Wage slavery and American Journal of Sociology

Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism. Wage slavery and Anarchism are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Anarchism

Anarcho-capitalism

Anarcho-capitalism (colloquially: ancap or an-cap) is an anti-statist, libertarian political philosophy and economic theory that seeks to abolish centralized states in favor of stateless societies with systems of private property enforced by private agencies, based on concepts such as the non-aggression principle, free markets and self-ownership.

See Wage slavery and Anarcho-capitalism

Anarcho-syndicalism

Anarcho-syndicalism is an anarchist organisational model that centres trade unions as a vehicle for class conflict.

See Wage slavery and Anarcho-syndicalism

Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.

See Wage slavery and Aristotle

Artisan

An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.

See Wage slavery and Artisan

Austrian school of economics

The Austrian school is a heterodox school of economic thought that advocates strict adherence to methodological individualism, the concept that social phenomena result primarily from the motivations and actions of individuals along with their self interest.

See Wage slavery and Austrian school of economics

Autonomy

In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.

See Wage slavery and Autonomy

Beau Friedlander

Beau Friedlander is an American writer, publisher, and media consultant.

See Wage slavery and Beau Friedlander

Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy. Wage slavery and bourgeoisie are Marxist terminology.

See Wage slavery and Bourgeoisie

Buenaventura Durruti

José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT and the FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939.

See Wage slavery and Buenaventura Durruti

C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989),Fraser, C. Gerald,, The New York Times, 2 June 1989.

See Wage slavery and C. L. R. James

Caitlin Rosenthal

Caitlin C. Rosenthal is an American historian.

See Wage slavery and Caitlin Rosenthal

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

See Wage slavery and Cambridge University Press

Carole Pateman

Carole Pateman FBA FAcSS FLSW (born 11 December 1940) is a feminist and political theorist.

See Wage slavery and Carole Pateman

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

See Wage slavery and Catholic Church

Cato Institute

The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries.

See Wage slavery and Cato Institute

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

See Wage slavery and Cicero

Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

See Wage slavery and Confederate States of America

Confederation

A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.

See Wage slavery and Confederation

Continuum International Publishing Group

Continuum International Publishing Group was an academic publisher of books with editorial offices in London and New York City.

See Wage slavery and Continuum International Publishing Group

Corporate propaganda

Corporate propaganda refers to corporations or government entities that spread specific ideology in order to shape public opinion or perceptions and promote its own interests.

See Wage slavery and Corporate propaganda

Criticism of capitalism

Criticism of capitalism is a critique of political economy that involves the rejection of, or dissatisfaction with the economic system of capitalism and its outcomes. Wage slavery and Criticism of capitalism are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Criticism of capitalism

Critique of political economy

Critique of political economy or simply the first critique of economy is a form of social critique that rejects the conventional ways of distributing resources.

See Wage slavery and Critique of political economy

Critique of work

Critique of work or critique of labour is the critique of, and/or wish to abolish, work as such, and to critique what the critics of works deem wage slavery. Wage slavery and critique of work are criticism of work.

See Wage slavery and Critique of work

Cultural hegemony

In Marxist philosophy, cultural hegemony is the dominance of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who shape the culture of that society—the beliefs and explanations, perceptions, values, and mores—so that the worldview of the ruling class becomes the accepted cultural norm. Wage slavery and cultural hegemony are Marxist terminology and socialism.

See Wage slavery and Cultural hegemony

David Ellerman

David Patterson Ellerman (born 14 March 1943) is a philosopher and author who works in the fields of economics and political economy, social theory and philosophy, quantum mechanics, and in mathematics.

See Wage slavery and David Ellerman

David Graeber

David Rolfe Graeber (February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist.

See Wage slavery and David Graeber

De Officiis

De Officiis (On Duties, On Obligations, or On Moral Responsibilities) is a 44 BC treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero divided into three books, in which Cicero expounds his conception of the best way to live, behave, and observe moral obligations.

See Wage slavery and De Officiis

Debt bondage

Debt bondage, also known as debt slavery, bonded labour, or peonage, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation. Wage slavery and debt bondage are slavery by type.

See Wage slavery and Debt bondage

Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the denial of full humanity in others along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it.

See Wage slavery and Dehumanization

Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

See Wage slavery and Democracy Now!

Dictionary.com

Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.

See Wage slavery and Dictionary.com

Diggers

The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England, associated with agrarian socialism.

See Wage slavery and Diggers

Dimitrios Roussopoulos

Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a Canadian political activist and publisher.

See Wage slavery and Dimitrios Roussopoulos

Distributism

Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated.

See Wage slavery and Distributism

E. P. Thompson

Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.

See Wage slavery and E. P. Thompson

Ecco Press

Ecco is a New York–based publishing imprint of HarperCollins.

See Wage slavery and Ecco Press

Elite

In political and sociological theory, the elite (élite, from eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group.

See Wage slavery and Elite

Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

See Wage slavery and Elsevier

Emerald Group Publishing

Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books, headquartered in Leeds, England.

See Wage slavery and Emerald Group Publishing

Employment contract

An employment contract or contract of employment is a kind of contract used in labour law to attribute rights and responsibilities between parties to a bargain.

See Wage slavery and Employment contract

Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist.

See Wage slavery and Erich Fromm

European enslavement of Indigenous Americans

During and after the European colonization of the Americas, European settlers practiced widespread enslavement of Indigenous peoples.

See Wage slavery and European enslavement of Indigenous Americans

Exploitation of labour

Exploitation is a concept defined as, in its broadest sense, one agent taking unfair advantage of another agent. Wage slavery and Exploitation of labour are Ethically disputed working conditions.

See Wage slavery and Exploitation of labour

Extreme poverty

Extreme poverty is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.

See Wage slavery and Extreme poverty

Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families. Wage slavery and Forced labour are Ethically disputed working conditions.

See Wage slavery and Forced labour

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

See Wage slavery and Frederick Douglass

Freedom Press

Freedom Press is an anarchist publishing house and bookseller in Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom, founded in 1886.

See Wage slavery and Freedom Press

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

See Wage slavery and Friedrich Engels

Georgism

Georgism, also called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that they produce themselves, while the economic rent derived from land—including from all natural resources, the commons, and urban locations—should belong equally to all members of society.

See Wage slavery and Georgism

Gerrard Winstanley

Gerrard Winstanley (baptised 19 October 1609 – 10 September 1676) was an English Protestant religious reformer, political philosopher, and activist during the period of the Commonwealth of England.

See Wage slavery and Gerrard Winstanley

Grand National Consolidated Trades Union

The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union of 1834 was an early attempt to form a national union confederation in the United Kingdom.

See Wage slavery and Grand National Consolidated Trades Union

Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

See Wage slavery and Harvard University Press

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

See Wage slavery and Henry David Thoreau

Henry George

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist.

See Wage slavery and Henry George

Henry Holt and Company

Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City.

See Wage slavery and Henry Holt and Company

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

See Wage slavery and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Hierarchy

A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.

See Wage slavery and Hierarchy

History of the Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States.

See Wage slavery and History of the Republican Party (United States)

Human condition

The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death.

See Wage slavery and Human condition

Human nature

Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally.

See Wage slavery and Human nature

Industrial democracy

Industrial democracy is an arrangement which involves workers making decisions, sharing responsibility and authority in the workplace. Wage slavery and Industrial democracy are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Industrial democracy

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

See Wage slavery and Industrial Revolution

Inequality of bargaining power

Inequality of bargaining power in law, economics and social sciences refers to a situation where one party to a bargain, contract or agreement, has more and better alternatives than the other party.

See Wage slavery and Inequality of bargaining power

International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards.

See Wage slavery and International Labour Organization

Investment theory of party competition

The Investment theory of party competition is a political theory developed by Thomas Ferguson, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

See Wage slavery and Investment theory of party competition

Jeff Schmidt (writer)

Jeff Schmidt is a physicist who wrote the 2000 book Disciplined Minds, a critique of the socialization and training of professionals.

See Wage slavery and Jeff Schmidt (writer)

John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.

See Wage slavery and John Dewey

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

See Wage slavery and Karl Marx

Labor rights

Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers.

See Wage slavery and Labor rights

Labour economics

Labour economics, or labor economics, seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the markets for wage labour.

See Wage slavery and Labour economics

Laissez Faire Books

Laissez Faire Books (LFB) was an online bookseller originally based in New York City when it first opened in 1972.

See Wage slavery and Laissez Faire Books

Lawrence B. Glickman

Lawrence B. Glickman (born January 10, 1963) is an American history professor and author or editor of four books and several articles on consumerism.

See Wage slavery and Lawrence B. Glickman

Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

See Wage slavery and Liberalism

Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management. Wage slavery and Libertarian socialism are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Libertarian socialism

Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

See Wage slavery and Library of America

Livelihood

A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life".

See Wage slavery and Livelihood

Loeb Classical Library

The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press.

See Wage slavery and Loeb Classical Library

Lowell mill girls

The Lowell mill girls were young female workers who came to work in textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Industrial Revolution in the United States.

See Wage slavery and Lowell mill girls

Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana.

See Wage slavery and Loyola University New Orleans

Luddite

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns regarding decreased pay for textile workers and a perceived reduction of output quality, and often destroyed the machines in organised raids.

See Wage slavery and Luddite

Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

See Wage slavery and Macmillan Publishers

Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively.

See Wage slavery and Management

Marc Hauser

Marc D. Hauser (born October 25, 1959) is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior, animal cognition and human behavior and neuroscience.

See Wage slavery and Marc Hauser

Market system

A market system (or market ecosystem) is any systematic process enabling many market players to offer and demand: helping buyers and sellers interact and make deals.

See Wage slavery and Market system

Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. Wage slavery and Marxism are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Marxism

Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit online encyclopedia that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of communist, anarchist, and socialist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Rosa Luxemburg, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu).

See Wage slavery and Marxists Internet Archive

Means of production

In political philosophy, the means of production refers to the generally necessary assets and resources that enable a society to engage in production. Wage slavery and means of production are Marxist terminology and socialism.

See Wage slavery and Means of production

Melville House Publishing

Melville House Publishing is an American independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

See Wage slavery and Melville House Publishing

Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.

See Wage slavery and Merriam-Webster

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist.

See Wage slavery and Mikhail Bakunin

Milgram experiment

Beginning on August 7, 1961, a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

See Wage slavery and Milgram experiment

Mises Institute

The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics, or Mises Institute, is a nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, that is a center for Austrian economics, radical right-wing libertarian thought and the paleolibertarian and anarcho-capitalist movements in the United States.

See Wage slavery and Mises Institute

Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a nonprofit American progressive magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative journalism on topics including politics, environment, human rights, health and culture.

See Wage slavery and Mother Jones (magazine)

Murray Bookchin

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental movement.

See Wage slavery and Murray Bookchin

Murray Rothbard

Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School,Ronald Hamowy, ed., 2008,, Cato Institute, Sage,, p. 62: "a leading economist of the Austrian school"; pp.

See Wage slavery and Murray Rothbard

Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

See Wage slavery and Nationalization

Nature

Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole.

See Wage slavery and Nature

Neoclassical economics

Neoclassical economics is an approach to economics in which the production, consumption, and valuation (pricing) of goods and services are observed as driven by the supply and demand model.

See Wage slavery and Neoclassical economics

Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.

See Wage slavery and Noam Chomsky

Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

See Wage slavery and Orion Publishing Group

Our Generation (journal)

Our Generation was an anarchist journal published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1961 through 1994.

See Wage slavery and Our Generation (journal)

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

See Wage slavery and Oxford University Press

Participatory economics

Participatory economics, often abbreviated Parecon, is an economic system based on participatory decision making as the primary economic mechanism for allocation in society. Wage slavery and participatory economics are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Participatory economics

Paul Samuelson

Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

See Wage slavery and Paul Samuelson

Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a multinational corporation, headquartered in the UK, focused on educational publishing and services.

See Wage slavery and Pearson plc

Penguin Classics

Penguin Classics is an imprint of Penguin Books under which classic works of literature are published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean among other languages.

See Wage slavery and Penguin Classics

Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

See Wage slavery and Peter Kropotkin

Picador (imprint)

Picador is an imprint of Pan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and of Macmillan Publishing in the United States.

See Wage slavery and Picador (imprint)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979).

See Wage slavery and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Political Research Quarterly

Political Research Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of political science.

See Wage slavery and Political Research Quarterly

Politics & Society

Politics & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal.

See Wage slavery and Politics & Society

Politics (Aristotle)

Politics (Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.

See Wage slavery and Politics (Aristotle)

Post-Keynesian economics

Post-Keynesian economics is a school of economic thought with its origins in The General Theory of John Maynard Keynes, with subsequent development influenced to a large degree by Michał Kalecki, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Sidney Weintraub, Paul Davidson, Piero Sraffa and Jan Kregel.

See Wage slavery and Post-Keynesian economics

Precariat

In sociology and economics, the precariat is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.

See Wage slavery and Precariat

Price system

In economics, a price system is a system through which the valuations of any forms of property (tangible or intangible) are determined.

See Wage slavery and Price system

Prickly Paradigm Press

Prickly Paradigm Press is a new incarnation of Prickly Pear Pamphlets, which was started in 1993, in Cambridge, England, by anthropologists Keith Hart and Anna Grimshaw.

See Wage slavery and Prickly Paradigm Press

Private property

Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.

See Wage slavery and Private property

Producerism

Producerism is an ideology which holds that those members of society engaged in the production of tangible wealth are of greater benefit to society than, for example, aristocrats who inherit their wealth and status.

See Wage slavery and Producerism

Progress Publishers

Progress Publishers was a Moscow-based Soviet publisher founded in 1931.

See Wage slavery and Progress Publishers

Proletariat

The proletariat is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). Wage slavery and proletariat are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Proletariat

Protest songs in the United States

Protest songs in the United States are a tradition that dates back to the early 18th century and have persisted and evolved as an aspect of American culture through the present day.

See Wage slavery and Protest songs in the United States

Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

See Wage slavery and Qing dynasty

Refusal of work

Refusal of work is behavior in which a person refuses regular employment. Wage slavery and Refusal of work are criticism of work.

See Wage slavery and Refusal of work

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, reinforcement refers to consequences that increase the likelihood of an organism's future behavior, typically in the presence of a particular antecedent stimulus.

See Wage slavery and Reinforcement

Relations of production

Relations of production (Produktionsverhältnisse) is a concept frequently used by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their theory of historical materialism and in Das Kapital.

See Wage slavery and Relations of production

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

See Wage slavery and Republican Party (United States)

Reseller

A reseller is a company or individual (merchant) that purchases goods or services with the intention of selling them rather than consuming or using them.

See Wage slavery and Reseller

Reserve army of labour

Reserve army of labour is a concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy.

See Wage slavery and Reserve army of labour

Right-libertarianism

Right-libertarianism,Rothbard, Murray (1 March 1971).

See Wage slavery and Right-libertarianism

Robert Kuttner

Robert L. Kuttner (born April 17, 1943) is an American journalist, university professor and writer whose works present a liberal and progressive point of view.

See Wage slavery and Robert Kuttner

Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher.

See Wage slavery and Robert Nozick

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

See Wage slavery and Roman Empire

Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

See Wage slavery and Routledge

Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

See Wage slavery and Rowman & Littlefield

Salary

A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which may be specified in an employment contract.

See Wage slavery and Salary

Samanid Empire

The Samanid Empire (Sāmāniyān), also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply as the Samanids, was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, of Iranian dehqan origin.

See Wage slavery and Samanid Empire

Self-determination

Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage.

See Wage slavery and Self-determination

Self-employment

Self-employment is the state of working for oneself rather than an employer.

See Wage slavery and Self-employment

Self-ownership

Self-ownership is the concept of property in one's own body, often expressed as the moral or natural right of a person to have bodily integrity meaning the exclusive right to control one's own body including one's life, where 'control' means exerting any physical interference and 'exclusive' means having the right to install and enforce a ban on other people doing this.

See Wage slavery and Self-ownership

Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company.

See Wage slavery and Seven Stories Press

Silvio Gesell

Johann Silvio Gesell (17 March 1862 – 11 March 1930) was a German-Argentine economist, merchant, and the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism.

See Wage slavery and Silvio Gesell

Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet

Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet (14 July 1736 – 27 June 1794) was a French journalist and advocate known for his conservative politics who was executed during the French Revolution.

See Wage slavery and Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet

Slave plantation

A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour.

See Wage slavery and Slave plantation

Slavery

Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.

See Wage slavery and Slavery

Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.

See Wage slavery and Slavery in the United States

Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation.

See Wage slavery and Social alienation

A social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the working class, middle class, and upper class.

See Wage slavery and Social class

Social Forces (formerly The Journal of Social Forces) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of social science published by Oxford University Press for the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

See Wage slavery and Social Forces

Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.

See Wage slavery and Social mobility

Social ownership is a type of property where an asset is recognized to be in the possession of society as a whole rather than individual members or groups within it. Wage slavery and Social ownership are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Social ownership

Social Science History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal.

See Wage slavery and Social Science History

Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.

See Wage slavery and Social status

Social stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.

See Wage slavery and Social stigma

Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).

See Wage slavery and Social stratification

Socialist economics comprises the economic theories, practices and norms of hypothetical and existing socialist economic systems. Wage slavery and socialist economics are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Socialist economics

South End Press

South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics.

See Wage slavery and South End Press

Southern Historical Association

The Southern Historical Association is a professional academic organization of historians focusing on the history of the Southern United States.

See Wage slavery and Southern Historical Association

Sovereign state

A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.

See Wage slavery and Sovereign state

Spunk Library

The Spunk Library (also known as Spunk Press) was an anarchist Internet archive.

See Wage slavery and Spunk Library

Stanford prison experiment

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in August 1971.

See Wage slavery and Stanford prison experiment

Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.

See Wage slavery and Starvation

State (polity)

A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory.

See Wage slavery and State (polity)

State socialism is a political and economic ideology within the socialist movement that advocates state ownership of the means of production. Wage slavery and state socialism are socialism.

See Wage slavery and State socialism

Sweatshop

A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded workplace with very poor or illegal working conditions, including little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting and ventilation, or uncomfortably or dangerously high or low temperatures. Wage slavery and sweatshop are Ethically disputed working conditions.

See Wage slavery and Sweatshop

Syndicalism

Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership. Wage slavery and Syndicalism are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Syndicalism

Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

See Wage slavery and Taylor & Francis

The Limits of State Action

The Limits Of State Action (original German title Ideen zu einem Versuch die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen) is a philosophical treatise by Wilhelm von Humboldt, which is a major work of the German Enlightenment.

See Wage slavery and The Limits of State Action

The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

See Wage slavery and The New York Times

Thomas Ferguson (academic)

Thomas Ferguson (born 1949) is an American political scientist and author who writes on politics and economics, often within a historical perspective.

See Wage slavery and Thomas Ferguson (academic)

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In the old calendar, the new year began on March 25, not January 1.

See Wage slavery and Thomas Paine

Unemployment

Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period.

See Wage slavery and Unemployment

University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

See Wage slavery and University of California Press

University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

See Wage slavery and University of Chicago Press

University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

See Wage slavery and University of Illinois Press

University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

See Wage slavery and University of New South Wales

University of Texas Press

The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.

See Wage slavery and University of Texas Press

Utopia

A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members.

See Wage slavery and Utopia

Verso Books

Verso Books (formerly New Left Books) is a left-wing publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review (NLR) and includes Tariq Ali and Perry Anderson on its board of directors.

See Wage slavery and Verso Books

Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

See Wage slavery and Vintage Books

Voluntary slavery

Voluntary slavery, in theory, is the condition of slavery entered into at a point of voluntary consent. Wage slavery and voluntary slavery are slavery by type.

See Wage slavery and Voluntary slavery

W. W. Norton & Company

See Wage slavery and W. W. Norton & Company

Wage

A wage is payment made by an employer to an employee for work done in a specific period of time.

See Wage slavery and Wage

Wage labour

Wage labour (also wage labor in American English), usually referred to as paid work, paid employment, or paid labour, refers to the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour power under a formal or informal employment contract. Wage slavery and wage labour are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Wage labour

Walter Block

Walter Edward Block (born August 21, 1941) is an American Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist theorist.

See Wage slavery and Walter Block

Wealth

Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.

See Wage slavery and Wealth

Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

See Wage slavery and Wiley (publisher)

Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

See Wage slavery and Wiley-Blackwell

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (also,;; 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

See Wage slavery and Wilhelm von Humboldt

William Lazonick

William Lazonick (born June 8, 1945) is an economist who studies innovation and competition in the global economy.

See Wage slavery and William Lazonick

Worker cooperative

A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and self-managed by its workers. Wage slavery and worker cooperative are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Worker cooperative

Workers' control

Workers' control is participation in the management of factories and other commercial enterprises by the people who work there. Wage slavery and Workers' control are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Workers' control

Workers' self-management

Workers' self-management, also referred to as labor management and organizational self-management, is a form of organizational management based on self-directed work processes on the part of an organization's workforce. Wage slavery and Workers' self-management are socialism.

See Wage slavery and Workers' self-management

Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.

See Wage slavery and Yale University Press

ZNetwork

ZNetwork, formerly known as Z Communications, is a left-wing activist-oriented media group founded in 1986 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent.

See Wage slavery and ZNetwork

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

Also known as Economic slavery, Slavery and wage labor, Wage labor and slavery, Wage slave, Wage slaves, Wage-slave, Wage-slavery, Wage-working slave, Wage-working slaves, Wageslave.

, Employment contract, Erich Fromm, European enslavement of Indigenous Americans, Exploitation of labour, Extreme poverty, Forced labour, Frederick Douglass, Freedom Press, Friedrich Engels, Georgism, Gerrard Winstanley, Grand National Consolidated Trades Union, Harvard University Press, Henry David Thoreau, Henry George, Henry Holt and Company, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Hierarchy, History of the Republican Party (United States), Human condition, Human nature, Industrial democracy, Industrial Revolution, Inequality of bargaining power, International Labour Organization, Investment theory of party competition, Jeff Schmidt (writer), John Dewey, Karl Marx, Labor rights, Labour economics, Laissez Faire Books, Lawrence B. Glickman, Liberalism, Libertarian socialism, Library of America, Livelihood, Loeb Classical Library, Lowell mill girls, Loyola University New Orleans, Luddite, Macmillan Publishers, Management, Marc Hauser, Market system, Marxism, Marxists Internet Archive, Means of production, Melville House Publishing, Merriam-Webster, Mikhail Bakunin, Milgram experiment, Mises Institute, Mother Jones (magazine), Murray Bookchin, Murray Rothbard, Nationalization, Nature, Neoclassical economics, Noam Chomsky, Orion Publishing Group, Our Generation (journal), Oxford University Press, Participatory economics, Paul Samuelson, Pearson plc, Penguin Classics, Peter Kropotkin, Picador (imprint), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Political Research Quarterly, Politics & Society, Politics (Aristotle), Post-Keynesian economics, Precariat, Price system, Prickly Paradigm Press, Private property, Producerism, Progress Publishers, Proletariat, Protest songs in the United States, Qing dynasty, Refusal of work, Reinforcement, Relations of production, Republican Party (United States), Reseller, Reserve army of labour, Right-libertarianism, Robert Kuttner, Robert Nozick, Roman Empire, Routledge, Rowman & Littlefield, Salary, Samanid Empire, Self-determination, Self-employment, Self-ownership, Seven Stories Press, Silvio Gesell, Simon-Nicholas Henri Linguet, Slave plantation, Slavery, Slavery in the United States, Social alienation, Social class, Social Forces, Social mobility, Social ownership, Social Science History, Social status, Social stigma, Social stratification, Socialist economics, South End Press, Southern Historical Association, Sovereign state, Spunk Library, Stanford prison experiment, Starvation, State (polity), State socialism, Sweatshop, Syndicalism, Taylor & Francis, The Limits of State Action, The New York Times, Thomas Ferguson (academic), Thomas Paine, Unemployment, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Illinois Press, University of New South Wales, University of Texas Press, Utopia, Verso Books, Vintage Books, Voluntary slavery, W. W. Norton & Company, Wage, Wage labour, Walter Block, Wealth, Wiley (publisher), Wiley-Blackwell, Wilhelm von Humboldt, William Lazonick, Worker cooperative, Workers' control, Workers' self-management, Yale University Press, ZNetwork.

Wage slavery, the Glossary

Table of Contents