The continuum stretches from stable wage work to true self-employment.

The truly self-employed works quite independently, without involving himself/herself in any form of wage work.

Family life, child care, and elderly care often shapes women's wage work, constraining them to places near the home.

States had supported part-time and low wage work by continuing to provide medical benefits and food stamps for these workers.

It is a no wage work scheme designed cynical to the employment figures in the wake of pending general election.

In 1968, an hour's worth of minimum wage work bought almost five gallons of gas.

As a graduate am I on balance less likely to be accepted for lower level minimum wage work?

Criticisms of wage work in the literature draw several similarities with slavery:

The Navajos, in general, did not receive much more than wage work for their contributions to the uranium mining industry.

There was not nearly enough wage work to go around.