history: I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
knowledge: It is usually used to refer to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.
response: Would you say you are a wage slave, that you're livelihood is dependent in an immediate and total way on your salary?
history: I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
Would you say you are a wage slave, that you're livelihood is dependent in an immediate and total way on your salary?
Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!
knowledge: The term ''wage slavery'' has been used to criticize exploitation of labour and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g.
response: Wow. I know the term "wage slavery" is used when criticizing the unequal bargaining power between capital and labor.
history: I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
Would you say you are a wage slave, that you're livelihood is dependent in an immediate and total way on your salary?
Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!
Wow. I know the term "wage slavery" is used when criticizing the unequal bargaining power between capital and labor.
I wish we had a union where I work. Maybe I could check into joining one.
knowledge: Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the ''inequality of bargaining power'' between employees and employers, especially employers ''organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association''.
response: There is also labor law, which is about reducing the inequality in bargaining power.
history: I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
Would you say you are a wage slave, that you're livelihood is dependent in an immediate and total way on your salary?
Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!
Wow. I know the term "wage slavery" is used when criticizing the unequal bargaining power between capital and labor.
I wish we had a union where I work. Maybe I could check into joining one.
There is also labor law, which is about reducing the inequality in bargaining power.
That's just what we need at my workplace. It seems like we just keep missing out on more and more.
knowledge: Similarities between wage labor and slavery were noted as early as Cicero in Ancient Rome.
response: Cicero in Ancient Rome actually talked about similarities between slavery and wage labor.
history: I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
Would you say you are a wage slave, that you're livelihood is dependent in an immediate and total way on your salary?
Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!
Wow. I know the term "wage slavery" is used when criticizing the unequal bargaining power between capital and labor.
I wish we had a union where I work. Maybe I could check into joining one.
There is also labor law, which is about reducing the inequality in bargaining power.
That's just what we need at my workplace. It seems like we just keep missing out on more and more.
Cicero in Ancient Rome actually talked about similarities between slavery and wage labor.
Oh wow, I didn't know that! So that makes me feel a little bit better about it I guess since there's probably been billions upon billions of people who have went through the same thing I'm going through.
knowledge: With the advent of the industrial revolution, thinkers such as Proudhon and Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery, while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines.
response: There were also thinkers during the Industrial revolution who talked about similarities between wage labor and slavery.