Wage slavery
As wage slavery are degenerate and atavistic employment designated as under early capitalist relations of production in the industrialized countries were common until the second half of the 19th century and still exist in the world.
Wage slavery is characterized by widespread lawlessness of workers against the arbitrary exploitation by all power enacting employer . One indicator of wage slavery is a. the amount of wages that, when the workforce is completely exhausted, only enables a life on the edge of the subsistence level. It is also typical that employees in wage slavery receive their wages partly or even entirely in the form of natural produce.
Wage slavery in connection with debt bondage arises when employees are forced to obtain accommodation, work and food as debtors from the employer before starting work and during the employment relationship, and the wages are almost completely withheld by the employer (Company Store System). This is exacerbated when workers far away from human settlements have to spend more than their wages in businesses operated by the employer on groceries and other essential daily necessities, so that if they are unable to leave, they usually quickly get into debt considerably, and even more so Dependencies are advised (as happened in the 1990s with road and tunnel works in the remote North Indian Himalayas ).
See also
literature
- Friedrich Engels: The situation of the working class in England . Based on our own experience and authentic sources. , Dietz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1892 (newly published by Walter Kumpmann at DTV, Munich 1987, ISBN 3423060123 )
- Charles Reeve, Xuanwu Xi: Hell on Earth: Bureaucracy, Forced Labor, and Business in China. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2001
- Michael Heinrich: Critique of Political Economy. An introduction. ( Memento from June 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Schmetterling Verlag, 2004