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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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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