Nineteenth-century wage labor displaced chattel slavery as the most efficient exploitation nexus.

Evidence

In the nineteenth century, the harnessing of steam power and the elaboration of the “factory system” generated unprecedented possibilities for human exploitation. Up went gigantic new hives for continuous work. Penurious wage labor effectively displaced even chattel slavery as the new maximally efficient, hugely profitable, and utterly amoral nexus of machines, law, and greed. This was the Industrial Revolution. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 211

Categorization

• QUESTION: Contestable historical claim — that wage labor was ‘maximally efficient’ and displaced slavery on those grounds. The moral narrative (abolition) vs efficiency narrative deserves follow-up.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 211