How the American economy conspires to keep wages down | Gabriel Winant | Opinion | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/13/american-economy-wage-suppression-how-it-works
We tend to think of employment as a market interaction: supply and demand meet to set a price, and that’s the wage you get paid. But work is much more than this. When you buy bread, there’s no other connection between you and the baker. You take your loaf and go home. But when you sell labor in the labor market, you’re entering into an ongoing power relationship. In return for your wages, you’re supposed to submit – not once but every day. It’s not just economic. Work is intrinsically political.