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Critics of wage work have drawn several similarities between wage work and slavery: Since the chattel slave is property, his value to an owner is in some ways higher than that of a worker who may quit, be fired or replaced.
1. Feb. 2017 · The Knights of Labor, an early labor union, saw this dependence on an employer—regardless of how much or how little was paid—as “wage slavery,” a condition literally comparable to chattel slavery, which the country had only recently abolished.
Wage slavery is a term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. It is usually used to refer to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.
- Disruption of Labor Relations
- Growing Racial Wage Gap
- A ‘More Permanent’ Solution
- Benefiting Others as Well
To many, the question going forward is not so much whether or not reparations are in order, but what kinds of reparations might be appropriate. Most of the conversation to date has focused on reparations in terms of payouts of some form. Prominent author Ta-Nehisi Coates, in a powerful argument for reparations, said payments must be made by white A...
Labor relations can be considered “distorted” when one party profits disproportionally at the expense of another. In other words, it is a departure from a “fair day’s pay for a fair days’s work” – a concept that forms a bedrock demand of the labor movement, alongside good working conditions. This is not just a matter of money but also of power. Und...
Some in the labor movement are beginning to link reparations with union rights. Labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan has suggested that the proposed Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a bill before Congress that would strengthen workers’ rights and weaken anti-union right-to-work laws, should be viewed as “a practical form of Black reparations.” He arg...
So while redistributing money can be part of the solution, it may not go far enough. Tying reparations to the improvement of labor relations – which can happen through the empowerment of working people or the promotion of worker-owned cooperatives – would not only help those most affected by wealth and employment gaps, Black Americans, it would als...
- Joerg Rieger
10. Aug. 2021 · So what difference did it make if slavery was cheaper than free labor? Wages paid to free laborers in many parts of the South were generally low compared to the wages paid to free laborers in other parts of the United States. One of the factors contributing to this wage gap was the very institution of slavery itself.
- Klas Rönnbäck
- 2021
25. Apr. 2023 · As labour is often treated as a commodity, for Marxists, wage labour is the foundation of an extractive capitalist system. The capitalists benefit from an exploitative regime of private capitalism akin to “wage slavery” that reduces workers’ conditions to that of virtual slaves.
1. Jan. 2023 · Stuart C. Carr. 364 Accesses. Abstract. The nadir for wage-related wellbeing, on the wage-wellbeing spectrum, is economic slavery. This chapter focuses on trafficked work and Slavery Wages. There are compelling reasons for a dearth in on-the-ground ‘research’, including issues of safety, invisibility, and criminality.
