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Chapter 12
Question 1 of 3
Dr. Leete argues that the fundamental difference between chattel slavery and nineteenth-century wage labor was what?
A
Wage labor was entirely voluntary and involved no coercion at all
B
It was a difference between direct coercion by a master and indirect coercion through Nature's hunger, wielded as a club by those who monopolized the means of subsistence
C
Wage laborers were paid far more than the cost of a slave's upkeep
D
There was no meaningful difference; the doctor considers them identical in every respect
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