wageworker

[ weyj-wur-ker ]

noun

1. a member of the laboring class; wage earner.

Other Words From

• wageworking adjective noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of wageworker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; wage + worker

Example Sentences

Still further it is a fact of necessary correlation, once granted the directing principle of the present form of production which makes the wageworker a necessity.

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A. My father was called Wageworker—my mother's name is Poverty.—Q.

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Moreover, it is exactly as true of the farmer, as it is of the business man and the wageworker, that the ultimate success of the Nation of which he forms a part must be founded not alone on material prosperity but upon high moral, mental, and physical development.

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It should be one of our prime objects as a Nation, so far as feasible, constantly to work toward putting the mechanic, the wageworker who works with his hands, on a higher plane of efficiency and reward, so as to increase his effectiveness in the economic world, and the dignity, the remuneration, and the power of his position in the social world.

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In the first place, they ought to teach the workingman, the laborer, the wageworker, that by demanding what is improper and impossible he plays into the hands of his foes.

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Related Words

• blue collar
• blue-collar worker
• breadwinner