unwaged

/ ʌnˈweɪdʒd /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or denoting a person who is not receiving pay because of either being unemployed or working in the home

Example Sentences

Full membership of the Labour Party costs £52 a year, although there are discounted rates for retired people, union members and the unwaged.

From BBC

Federici is a longtime advocate of the idea that domestic work is unwaged labor and was a founder of the Wages for Housework movement in the early 1970s.

From New York Times

Housework is also hard to organize around because it is unwaged and often self-managed, and therefore easy to see as less important than women’s waged work and the inequalities they face in the paid workforce, such as sexual harassment, pay inequity and pregnancy discrimination.

From The Guardian

Feminists critiqued capitalism’s dependence on women’s unwaged domestic labor, also called reproductive labor.

From The Guardian

From aprons to rubber gloves, domestic work uniforms are put on view from the 19th century to the 1990s in what is called “unwaged labor”.

From The Guardian