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Recent Examples of wage slave
Proslavery propaganda in the antebellum South insisted that Northern wage slaves were worse off than Southern chattel slaves.
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Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wage slave
wage earner
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Our friends and neighbors are living in terror of ICE raids that leave their families broken without a wage earner and leave children without their parents.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2025
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For wage earners, Social Security and Medicare taxes are called FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) and are taken out of your paycheck.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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“Wage slave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wage%20slave. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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