Employment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment
Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed." Black's Law Dictionary page 471 (5th ed. 1979).

In a commercial setting, the employer conceives of a productive activity, generally with the intention of generating a profit, and the employee contributes labour to the enterprise, usually in return for payment of wages. Employment also exists in the public, non-profit and household sectors. To the extent that employment or the economic equivalent is not universal, unemployment exists.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment#Opponents_of_capitalism

Opponents of capitalism, such as Marxists oppose the capitalist employment system, considering it to be unfair that the people who contribute the majority of work to an organization do not receive a proportionate share of the profit and that full employment is rarely reached under capitalism.

Other "isms": Marxist communism reorders the hierarchy to suggest that all all citizens of a society are equal owners, and are thus entitled to equal share of the wealth of the society.

The ideal sentiment of this ideology is not bad. The challenge becomes the manner by which the wealth of the society is distributed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment#Alternatives

A developing model of employment, as practiced by such companies as Semco, Google, DaVita, Freys Hotels and Linden Labs, seeks to set aside the "master-servant relationship" implicit in the traditional employment contract. The concommitant employment practices are often grouped under the heading Workplace democracy, and are characterised by high levels of employee engagement; principles-based rather than rules-based work relations; and a problem-solving approach to workplace conflict. In this model management (including its employment function) effectively becomes a domain shared between managers and staff. The resurgent New Unionism movement promotes this employment model, and seeks to extend it.

When an individual entirely owns the business for which he or she labours, this is known as self-employment. Self-employment often leads to incorporation. Incorporation offers certain protections of one's personal assets. Laws of incorporation vary from state to state with Delaware having the most incorporated businesses of any state in the U.S.

Workers who are not paid wages, such as volunteers, are generally not considered as being employed. One exception to this is an internship, an employment situation in which the worker receives training or experience (and possibly college credit) as the chief form of compensation.

Those who work under obligation for the purpose of fulfilling a debt, such as an indentured servant, or as property of the person or entity they work for, such as a slave, do not receive pay for their services and are not considered employed. Some historians suggest that slavery is older than employment, but both arrangements have existed for all recorded history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_redistribution

Income redistribution refers to a political policy intended to even the amount of income individuals are permitted to earn.^{[citation needed]}

The basic premise of the redistribution of income is that money should be distributed to benefit the poorer members of society, and that the rich have an obligation to assist the poor.^{[citation needed]} Thus, money should be redistributed from the rich to the poor, creating a more financially egalitarian society.^{[citation needed]} Proponents of redistribution typically say that the rich exploit the poor or otherwise gain unfair benefits. Therefore, redistributive practices would be justified in order to redress the balance.^{[citation needed]}

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Today, income redistribution occurs in some form in most democratic countries, most commonly through income-adjusted taxes (in which the amount of tax paid is directly connected to one's income), some of which goes to fund welfare programs to assist the poor or to all the society.

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