# Servants — The Wealth of Nations character guide

> Servants in The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** servants, their, Servants

**First appearance:** 0037-iii-of-the-accumulation-of-capital-or-of-productive-and-unproductive-labour

## Who they are

Hired hands whose subsistence ties them to a master's household, the human measure of subordination in every stage of society.

## In the story

### [VIII: Of the Wages of Labour](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_wealth_of_nations_se/chapters/viii-of-the-wages-of-labour)

Labourers who serve under masters; their wages and conditions are discussed in relation to cheap and dear years.

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