wage slave

[Doug Henwood]

[Greg Boozell had asked for the origin of the phrase "wage slave" - 
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From: "Jeet Heer"
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: wage slave
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:53:47 +0000

David Roediger has a good discussion of this in his Wages of 
Whiteness -- if I remember correctly the phrase "wage slave" was used 
by working class radicals as far back as the 1830s. Jeet