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Describe the system that critics of mining towns referred to as “wage slavery. Why did critics adopt this name?

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Wage slavery is a term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. It is usually used to refer to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.
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