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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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The federal earned income tax credit, which has been around for 50 years, is designed to give low-income wage earners a financial lift through the tax system.—
Susan Tompor,
USA TODAY,
3 Feb. 2025
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This is not the only good news for the wage earner.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes,
4 Oct. 2024
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“Wage slave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20slave. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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