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The 22 pages that link to Wage labor, each with the reason it gives.

• MarxismRelated: It is the employment relation through which capitalists purchase labor power.

• CapitalismRelated: Workers commonly earn income by selling labor to owners of productive assets.

• Agricultural laborRelated: Many farms hire workers for wages rather than relying only on family labor.

• Working classRelated: Dependence on wages is a defining feature of the class described here.

• Chattel slaveryCompared with: Its formal premise of paid employment contrasts with an enslaver’s claim to own a person and their labor.

• CorvéeCompared with: Corvée demanded labor without the wage payment that defines wage employment.

• ProletariatRelated: Selling labor power is the proletariat’s characteristic relation to production.

• Means of productionRelated: Workers without productive assets often sell their labor to asset-owning employers.

• Indentured servitudeCompared with: Wage workers generally receive payment during employment instead of serving to discharge passage costs or debts.

• Debt bondageCompared with: Wage labor is not bondage when workers can leave and are paid without coercive debt.

• Separate spheresRelated: Its association with public employment made men’s paid work appear separate from women’s unpaid household labor.

• Industrial societyRelated: Industrial society makes paid employment a central way most people obtain income.

• Collectivist anarchismCompared with: Collectivist anarchism rejects capitalist wage relations while retaining labor-based remuneration.

• Cotton KingdomCompared with: Wage labor contrasts with the legally enforced, unpaid labor central to cotton plantations.

• Reform or RevolutionRelated: Reforms may improve wages while leaving workers dependent on selling their labor.

• VolunteeringCompared with: It differs from volunteering because compensation is an expected condition of the work.

• Labor relationBroader topic: It names the employment arrangement underlying many modern labor relations.

• Anti-capitalismRelated: Many anti-capitalist critiques focus on workers’ dependence on wages and employers’ control of production.

• History of capitalismRelated: Its spread made workers’ livelihoods increasingly dependent on selling labor power.

• Wage slaveryNarrower topic: Wage slavery is a critique of dependence created by this form of employment.

• George FitzhughCompared with: He claimed wage workers were less secure than enslaved people, a claim that obscured slavery’s coercion.

• LaborerRelated: Many laborers sell their work for wages, though labor and wage employment are not identical.