In the booming textile mills of 19th-century America, young women were promised opportunity but found exploitation instead.

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.

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.

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.

Then, tipping started to fade as a practice in Europe but persisted in the US. We can tie that back to the abolition of slavery. Once slavery was abolished following the Civil War, workers who were ...