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Recent Examples of wage slave
Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.
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Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage slave
wage earner
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Decision fatigue impairs mental clarity and is why many wage earners have little mental energy left over for activities outside of work.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Nearly all wage earners pay into the system throughout their working lives on the promise of monthly checks at retirement.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
5 May 2025
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“Wage slave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20slave. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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