Lincoln agreed as well. He did not endorse wage labor for similar reasons outlined by enraged_camel. That man was no dummy concerning slavery.
Lincoln advocated 'free labor' as the moral and honest form of labor. Which took as a given that labor is greater than capital. Its proceeds should benefit completely its worker and his family not siphoned by the few who have capital.
Industrialization has made the workplace of the farm or workshop obsolete but I believe the principle could be maintained if workplaces were employee owned and managed democratically rather than authoritatively.
Thomas Jefferson would have agreed with you. His idea of America was the idea that there would be many small farms where people could be more or less self-sufficient and work would have instrinsic meaning. Of course, he had actual chattel slaves to help out. Hamilton had the idea that the US would become a trading nation. By their time, the industrial-capitalist revolution had not really gotten underway world-wide but the Hamiltonians won out in the end. The notion of 'work' as we know it now had also not really come into existence. Most people in the US worked on farms or otherwise for themselves.