wage labor

English

Alternative forms

• wage labour (Canada, UK)

Noun

wage labor (countable and uncountable, plural wage labors) (American spelling)

1. Labor that is sustained by giving the laborer a wage.
   • 1972, Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, 1st edition, page 24:

     The system of wage labor is a system of slavery, and indeed of a slavery which becomes more severe in proportion as the social productive forces of labor develop, whether the worker receives better or worse payment.

Translations

labor sustained by wages

• Finnish: palkkatyövoima
• Russian: наёмный труд (najómnyj trud)