the wage treadmill

[Bradford DeLong]

>the anti-Bellum south did a pretty good job "defending" its slavery 
>by pointing out that the north was populated with wage slaves.   any 
>historians out there conversant with the wage slave dialogue -- then 
>or now?    can't find much on it since, evidently, it hits to close 
>to home in our mercantile society.
>
>R

George Fitzhugh, _Cannibals All!_; you might also look at William 
Freehling, _Secessionists at Bay_

Brad Delong