wagery

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.