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Meanings of wage labor in English

Russian
наёмный рабочий
Portuguese
trabalho assalariado
Spanish
trabajo por un salario
Catalan
treball assalariat

Relationship where a worker sells labour to an employer.

наёмный рабочий
Usage of wage labor in English
1
Because there was no money, there was no wage labor.
The Black Experience in America
2
Natural resources invited industry in large units, but wage labor was not to be had.
American Negro Slavery / A Survey of the Supply, Employment and ...
3
It's a crop that doesn't do very well with something like slavery or wage labor.
Outliers: the story of success
4
White people still have more access to wage labor.
The Guardian
5
That is the weakness of slave labor; and of wage labor also where there is not full industrial education and freedom of choice.
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
6
Households dependent on wage labor can afford to buy a quarter of the wheat they bought in 2007, according to the World Food Program.
Reuters
7
Wage Labor and Capital, by Karl Marx.
The Common Sense of Socialism / A Series of Letters Addressed to...
8
Wage labor, quick, efficient.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South