Wage slavery refers to a situation where a workers livelihood depends on wages, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.It is a pejorative term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. The termwage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops),and the latter as a lack of workers self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their species characternot only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution. The view that working for wages is akin to slavery dates back to the ancient world.

In 1763, the French journalist Simon Linguet published a description of wage slavery:

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WAGE SLAVERY - THE WAGE WAR