Definition of «wage slave»

The phrase "wage slave" refers to a person who works solely for a wage or salary, often feeling trapped or oppressed because they have little control over their work and must depend on their job to make a living.

Sentences with «wage slave»

  • Self - employment is similarly enjoying gains, largely because it allows former wage slaves to become free agents. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • From Carlson's view, it was the resulting liberation of lots and lots of women to be wage slaves just like men that struck a decisive blow against the big and stable American family. (firstthings.com)
  • The enforcement of IMF / WB determined Structural Adjustment Policies can make the peoples of the poor indebted countries as wage slaves of the foreign companies, virtually from birth. (religion-online.org)
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