🌍ap world history: modern review

Wage labor

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Employment in which workers receive monetary compensation for their labor, replacing subsistence or household-based production and creating new economic dependencies and opportunities for women.

AP course connection

Topic 5.3: 5.3 Industrialization Begins

Unit 5