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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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To avoid being cost-burdened, a minimum-wage earner in Miami would have to work more than 100 hours a week.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
30 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, average wage earners were forced out of the new car market.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Wage slave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20slave. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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