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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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If the reduction in wages is due to natural causes, the loss of business being such that the burden should be, and is, equitably distributed, between capitalist and wageworker, the public should know it.

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He replied to one of his critics with this statement of his position: "While I am President I wish the labor man to feel that he has the same right of access to me that the capitalist has; that the doors swing open as easily to the wageworker as to the head of a big corporation—AND NO EASIER."

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Related Words

• blue collar
• blue-collar worker
• breadwinner