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wageworker

American  
[wayj-wur-ker] / ˈweɪdʒˌwɜr kər /

noun

  1. a member of the laboring class; wage earner.


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Etymology

Origin of wageworker

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; wage + worker


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Still further it is a fact of necessary correlation, once granted the directing principle of the present form of production which makes the wageworker a necessity.

From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola

If the reduction in wages is due to natural causes, the loss of business being such that the burden should be, and is, equitably distributed, between capitalist and wageworker, the public should know it.

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland

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