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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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Last month, the overall consumer price index rose 2.7% and the index for urban wage earners increased 2.6%.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
19 July 2025
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While this is touted as a benefit for middle income taxpayers the top end of the threshold of $300,000 of income puts that wage earner in the top 3% of earners in the country.—
Martin Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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“Wage slave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20slave. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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