wageryn.
/ˈweɪdʒəri/ The wage system, wage slavery (esp. as opposed by the guild socialists); wage-earners collective.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > work for wages > wage system
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wagery1917
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > employee > who receives wages > collectively
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1917 A. S. Neill Dominie's Log xv. 162 I wonder when people will begin to realise what wagery means. When they do begin to realise they will commence the revolution by driving women out of industry.
1917 S. G. Hobson Guild Principles in War & Peace ii. 33 Two generations of wagery were to live their squalid life..before we find singers.. grasping the true meaning of industrial oppression.
1972 A. M. Quinton in C. B. Cox & A. E. Dyson 20th-cent. Mind I. iv. 128 Personal fulfilment through work and the production of honest and emotionally satisfying goods could be secured only by the abolition of ‘wagery’, the wage system in which men sold their labour power unconditionally.
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