Meanings
- uncountableThe practice of hiring workers for wages.
Wagedom was not instituted to remove the disadvantages of communism; its origin, like that of the state and private ownership, is to be found elsewhere.
1892, Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread2 more examples
At the other end, we have workers in the coal and iron trades demanding wages varying with employers' profits. The first represents the transition from serfdom to wagedom; the second the transition from wagedom to freedom.
1880, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, The Claims of Labour, Or, Serfdom, Wagedom, and Freedom, page 47We may minimize it as we may by exaggerating our notions of the due rewards of enterprise ; but if we take the ethical idea of partnership as our concept of wagedom, if we look on human labour as a merchandise, we cannot logically resist the conclusion that capital, in part at any rate, is the product of injustice.
1908, The New Ireland Review - Volume 29, page 135
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