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You want to step out of the world of wage slavery, and set up a business of your own?

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

And writing as a vocation — despite keeping a diary — has to elbow its way past odd jobs, favors-that-end-up-paying, retail wage slavery and, for a short period, art.

From New York Times • May 29, 2017

This would free millions from what can become "wage slavery," he said, and allow people to follow passions and creative urges.

From US News • Feb. 2, 2016

But they work in sweatshops for measly pay and are forbidden to strike or get pregnant, says Tia Lessin's strident but revelatory documentary about wage slavery, American-style.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the great landed estates came tenantry, wage slavery and chattel slavery, the one condition the natural generator of the others.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers