wagery

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English

Etymology

Blend of wage +‎ slavery

Noun

wagery (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of wage slavery
    • 1914, S. G. Hobson, Alfred Richard Orage, National Guilds: An Inquiry Into the Wage System and the Way Out:
      The Christian Churches, notably the English Nonconformists, are now betraying deep concern at the dehumanising effects of wagery.
    • 1968, Ken Coates, Anthony Topham, Tony Topham, Industrial Democracy in Great Britain, page 40:
      During the past two years we have been at great pains to elaborate a constructive programme to be followed after the wage-earners had repudiated wagery.
    • 2006, Roy J. Adams, Labour Left Out, page 16:
      As pointed out by the reformers of the late 1800s, wagery is quite similar to slavery.
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