“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ...

The tale of John Locke, one of the survivors of Oceanic flight 815 in J.J. Abram’s hit television show Lost, is also one deeply rooted in the experience of wage slavery.

It’s long past time to end this vestige of slavery. Carrie N. Baker is a professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College and a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine.

Once slavery was abolished following the Civil War, workers who were formerly enslaved in agriculture and domestic service continued to do these same jobs, but employers didn’t want to pay them. So ...

When someone writes an op-ed opposing a $15 minimum wage [“Wage hike a disaster for working poor,” Opinion, May 10], you can bet he is motivated by protecting business profits.The real problem ...

Families supported by minimum wage jobs are excluded from America’s promise. There is no opportunity to spend time with children, to build wealth or to even participate in civic life.

But wage slavery isn’t only about how much people make; it’s about the freedom to walk away to choose a better option. As a society, we owe it to ourselves to pursue freedom from wage slavery.

The wage Slavery In the decade between 1846 and 1855, more than three million immigrants came to the United States, with a vast majority of them settling in the free states of the North.