| 释义 |
wagery|ˈweɪdʒərɪ|
[f. wage n. + -ery, after slavery.]
The wage system, wage slavery (esp. as opposed by the guild socialists); wage-earners collect.
1917A. S. Neill Dominie's Log xv. 162, I wonder when people will begin to realise what wagery means. When they do begin to realise they will commence the revolution by driving women out of industry. 1917S. G. Hobson Guild Principles in War & Peace ii. 33 Two generations of wagery were to live their squalid life..before we find singers.. grasping the true meaning of industrial oppression. 1972A. M. Quinton in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind I. iv. 128 Personal fulfilment through work and the production of honest and emotionally satisfying goods could be secured only by the abolition of ‘wagery’, the wage system in which men sold their labour power unconditionally. |