 It is a negatively connoted term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person.The term "wage slavery" has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g.in sweatshops) and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.