wage slave

Example Sentences

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One Georgia resident who has made 18 small donations to Sanders listed his occupation as a “wage slave”; another listed himself as a “slave”.

From The Guardian

When the protestor throws the bottle, she’s targeting a fellow wage slave who should be her ally, and he would if circumstances allowed him to simultaneously have principles and make enough money to support himself.

From The Verge

“This man said he understood my singing, for while my father was working as a slave, his own father was working as a wage slave in the mills of Manchester.”

From The Guardian

In one video, a woman declares that she would rather live at Little Creek for free than be a “wage slave.”

From Washington Times

The movie’s pleasures are hardly negligible: A montage showing Streep’s Priestly heedlessly tossing her coat-and-handbag combo onto Andy’s desk, morning after morning after morning, is partly a clever pantomime of the monotony of being a wage slave and partly a grand eye-roll at the sort of person who has so much great stuff to wear that she can just fling it around without a thought.

From Time