His point was not about blacks, whites, or even the Civil War. > Wage slavery refers to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, e

His point was not about blacks, whites, or even the Civil War. > Wage slavery refers to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, 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. There is a difference between "slaves" in the popular sense (chains, beatings, whips, rape), and "slaves" in the economic sense, but both are premised upon the unjust abrogation of freedom at the hands of another. This article describes the latter case quite well: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/the-new-american-slavery-invited-to-the-us-foreign-workers-f#.rx4lD3qvr http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/the-new-american-sla...