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Wage-earning   /weɪdʒ-ˈərnɪŋ/   Listen
Wage-earning

adjective
1.
Working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries.  Synonym: working-class.
2.
Of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers.  Synonyms: blue-collar, propertyless, working-class.






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"Wage-earning" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fall of capitalism. Lassalle, however, could appreciate the desirability of realizing some portion of the promised future in the immediate present, whilst Marx preferred not to risk the prolongation of the life of the capitalistic system by attempting to discount the day when the wage-earning classes should come wholly into their own. Marx, like Lassalle, was a revolutionist. Lassalle, however, was interested primarily in bringing about the social revolution on German soil, whilst Marx was an internationalist, a veritable ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... only the wage-earning class that is being hurt; for while they are being annihilated by the machinery and the efficient organization of industry by the trusts that control and are beginning to monopolize production, the shopkeeping classes ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell



Words linked to "Wage-earning" :   lower-class, low-class



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