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  • 1Wage-Labor and Capital — is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847. This book has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx’s masterpiece Das Kapital. The ideas that are expressed in the book have a very thorough economic contemplation about them as he… …

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  • 2Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… …

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  • 3LABOR — Jewish Labor Organizations IN THE PRE STATE PERIOD Since the last decades of the 19th century, a number of sporadic labor associations have arisen in agriculture and in the printing, clothing, and building trades, as well as groups limited to a… …

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  • 4Labor Ready — Infobox Company company company name = Labor Ready, Inc.| industry = Employment Services company type = public (NYSE: [http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=TBI TBI] ) foundation = Kent, Washington 1989 location = Tacoma,… …

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  • 5Labor aristocracy — (or aristocracy of labor ) has three meanings: as a term with Marxist theoretical underpinnings, as a specific type of trade unionism, and/or as a shorthand description by revolutionary industrial unions (such as the Industrial Workers of the… …

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  • 6Labor history of the United States — involves the history of organized labor, as well as the more general history of working people in the United States of America. Pressures dictating the nature and power of organized labor have included the evolution and power of the corporation,… …

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  • 7Labor unions in the United States — function as legally recognized representatives of workers in numerous industries. The most prominent unions are found among public sector employees such as teachers and police. Activity by labor unions in the United States today centers on… …

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  • 8Wage labour — is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a contract (employment), and the employer buys it, often in a labour market. [Deakin, Simon; Wilkinson, Frank.… …

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  • 9wage — n 1: a payment usu. of money for labor or services usu. according to a contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis often used in pl. 2 pl: the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production Merriam… …

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  • 10Wage — Wage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Waging}.] [OE. wagen, OF. wagier, gagier, to pledge, promise, F. gager to wager, lay, bet, fr. LL. wadium a pledge; of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. wadi a pledge, gawadj[=o]n to pledge, akin to E …

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