See wageable on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1946, Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks, page 194:",
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"text": "Insecurity of employment, which is a prerequisite of work discipline, contradicts capital's requirement for unlimited quantities of potentially wageable labour.",
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